by Free the Slaves | Sep 29, 2010 | Slavery in the News
FRANCE FORCIBLY REMOVES THOUSANDS OF ROMA PEOPLE, SAYS ROMA COMMUNITIES ARE ‘BREEDING GROUNDS’ FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING. EU THREATENS LEGAL ACTION ABC News: EU taking France to court over Roma expulsions: France’s “controversial expulsions of...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 29, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Gloria Allred called a press conference today to announce that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman knowingly hired an illegal immigrant for nine years. Nicky Diaz Santillan, also present at the press conference, was hired in 2000 to work as a nanny and...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 30, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Don’t confuse human trafficking with human smuggling. One is a form of slavery, the other is an act a person consents to. (For a good definition of human trafficking, go here.) In a report, written in 2005 titled “Trafficking in Persons in the United...
