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 | Oct 28, 2010 | Slavery in the News
This week, the Global Post published a great article about human trafficking in Ruili, a city on the Chinese side of the border with Myanmar. The article, written Kathleen E. McLaughlin, says that China’s one child policy is fueling trafficking of women from...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 24, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Yesterday, Free the Slaves Policy and Research Associate Jody Sarich and I attended a congressional hearing on North Korean human rights violations, in which several NK defectors described being trafficked into forced marriages in China, and repatriated back to NK,...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 14, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Children & Young People Now: Help for trafficked children caught in cannabis farms: “Children are being trafficked into the UK to work in so-called “cannabis factories”. There are now moves to treat those found during raids as victims rather than...