by Free the Slaves | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
We are excited to announce that our friends at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking—an L.A.-based anti-slavery organization that gives legal advocacy, shelter, and other direct services to survivors of modern-day slavery—are holding the annual ‘From...
by Free the Slaves | Nov 22, 2010 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
In October, the Associated Press reported on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Siem Reap, Cambodia where she visited with non other than 2009 Freedom Award winner Sina Vann. Sina was among a group of survivors of slavery in Cambodia, who met with...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sina Vann walks into her worst nightmare every day. For more than two years she was tortured and raped as a sex slave in Phnom Penh. She now goes back to the brothels to help sex slaves escape, and to provide health advice for those unable to break free. Last year,...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 9, 2010 | Slavery in the News
The Body Shop has partnered with anti-slavery organizations Somaly Mam Foundation and ECPAT to create the Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People campaign. As part of this campaign, The Body Shop launched a petition last week, to collect signatures to be...
