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Why We Had to Launch our “Ending Slavery” Free Online Course

by Free the Slaves | May 5, 2017 | Become an Abolitionist, I Am the Change, Take Action, Thought Leadership

Over the past 20 years the global antislavery movement has grown rapidly. Chart that growth and you get a long tail, then a steep upward curve about 10 years ago. From a small campaign on the margins, antislavery went mainstream and a series of tipping points marked...

Why I Wrote About Trafficking & Support Free the Slaves

by Free the Slaves | Mar 26, 2015 | Artists Against Slavery, FTS Updates, I Am the Change

Before I read John Bowe’s book Nobodies: and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (2007), I had been kicking around the idea that I would someday write a novel that explored the legacy of slavery and its connections to discrimination and racism in the United...

New Report Says 36 Million People Enslaved Worldwide

by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 17, 2014 | Research, Monitoring & Evaluation, Slavery in the News

New research from the group Walk Free and FTS Co-founder Kevin Bales estimates there are more people in slavery today than previously thought. The 2014 edition of the Walk Free Global Slavery Index reports that 35.8 million people are enslaved, a 23 percent increase...

Join FTS Leader for Forbes Magazine Google Hangout Today

by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 18, 2013 | FTS Updates

They’re being billed as an “anti-trafficking trio” who “share a passion for freedom.” And they’ll be on the Web live today during a Google Hangout organized by Forbes magazine. The conversation begins at 3 p.m. ET. The trio is FTS Executive Director Maurice...

30 Million in Slavery Globally, FTS Frontline Countries Top the List, says New Study

by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 17, 2013 | Slavery in the News

A new estimate of global slavery calculates that 29.8 million men, women and children are enslaved worldwide. The Global Slavery Index, released today by the Australian-based anti-trafficking group Walk Free, provides a first-of-its-kind country-by-country measure of...
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