by Terry FitzPatrick | Jun 11, 2014 | FTS Updates, Take Action
What do you call a room full of international development professionals? A golden opportunity! And that opportunity unfolds this week as InterAction hosts its 30th Annual Forum in Washington. For the first time, Free the Slaves will be on hand as an InterAction member...
by Maurice Middleberg | Jun 5, 2014 | Take Action
What if you had no choice but to send your child away, hoping she’d be fed, go to school and be safe? What if you found out that instead she was held against her will, abused and forced to work? No father wants to send his daughter to be enslaved as a maid in...
by Maurice Middleberg | May 27, 2014 | Take Action
The #bringbackourgirls hashtag has sparked widespread revulsion over the kidnapping of Nigerian girls who might be sold into bondage, including congressional resolutions condemning the group Boko Haram. While hashtag activism and expressions of outrage are important,...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Apr 22, 2014 | Slavery in the News
Many U.S. companies must soon disclose if their products are tainted by minerals often mined by slaves in central Africa. A federal appeals court panel has upheld most elements of the “conflict minerals rule,” which is a new corporate transparency regulation that can...
by Maurice Middleberg | Apr 15, 2014 | FTS Model for Freedom, FTS Updates, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation, Take Action
We’ve just completed our 2013 year-end review, and the results are both impressive and inspiring. In partnership with local organizations around the globe, we helped free more people from slavery last year than ever before. Here are the numbers from our...