by Free the Slaves | Mar 7, 2011 | FTS Updates
Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales and photographer Lisa Kristine—who worked with FTS to produce a groundbreaking book of photographs depicting modern-day slavery around the world—are featured prominently in the top story of CNN’s Freedom Project today. The...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 21, 2011 | Slavery in the News
CHILD SLAVERY DOCUMENTARY ‘NOT MY LIFE’ PREMIERS IN NEW YORK Earlier this week Not My Life, a documentary on child slavery and exploitation, premiered at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York. In an interview with UNICEF (a sponsor of the...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 23, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Several celebrities—including Robert Pattinson (shown here), Sienna Miller, Kim Cattrall and Matt LeBlanc—gave artistic renditions of their handprints to The Body Shop, U.K., in support of the cosmetic chain’s anti-slavery campaign, “Stop Sex Trafficking...
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...