by Free the Slaves | Mar 11, 2011 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
CNN’s coverage of anti-slavery efforts in Uttar Pradesh, India continued yesterday, with Indian Labor Secretary Prabhat C. Chaturvedi (shown in the video below) responding over use of the “S” word in the news reports. Secretary Chaturvedi disagrees with...
by Free the Slaves | Mar 8, 2011 | FTS Updates, India, Slavery in the News
In the course of her work, there are times when Free the Slaves South Asia Director Supriya Awasthi feels that her safety is at risk. This was the case when she was with the CNN news crew as they documented the reality of modern-day slavery in India. At one point,...
by Free the Slaves | Feb 28, 2011 | Slavery in the News
The Hindu: 500 Indians say they were trafficked to post-Katrina Louisiana to work in shipyards: Over 500 Indian citizens who were brought to the United States to work in shipyards, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, have initiated what might well become the largest...
by Free the Slaves | Feb 8, 2011 | FTS Updates, India
It was just over a year ago—January 2010—that Free the Slaves partners in India staged a raid and rescued 49 bonded laborers from a brick kiln near the village of Bahari. It turned out that 18 of the rescued laborers were originally from Bihar. They were able to...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 10, 2011 | FTS Updates, India
Despite the fact that slavery is illegal, modern day slavery thrives in many parts of India. There are millions of bonded labor slaves in the sub-continent. Most of these are Dalits—people of the so-called “untouchable” caste—who are saddled with bogus...
