by Free the Slaves | Jan 7, 2011 | FTS Updates
Here’s some interesting news: Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales’ groundbreaking 1999 book Disposable People has been translated into Arabic. Only a few hundred books are translated into Arabic every year (one estimate puts the number at 330). By...
by Free the Slaves | Dec 16, 2010 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
Free the Slaves Policy and Research Associate Jody Sarich is featured on Big Think today, speaking about her research on forced marriage and its relation to slavery and human trafficking in China. With FTS President Kevin Bales, Sarich is currently writing the first...
by Free the Slaves | Dec 10, 2010 | FTS Updates
Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales is featured in the current issue of The Friend, a weekly British Quaker magazine that has been continuously in print since 1843. (That’s a long time for a magazine. To put it in perspective, Vanity Fair has been around since...
by Free the Slaves | Dec 1, 2010 | FTS Updates
Here’s something for you to keep on your calenders for the New Year: Not My Life, a documentary on modern day slavery, narrated by Ashley Judd—and featuring Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales—will premiere in January. The director of Not My Life is Robert...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 30, 2010 | FTS Updates
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A blueprint for eliminating modern slavery has earned its creator the 2011 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C.,...