by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 7, 2011 | Slavery in the News
One of the world’s major 24-hour global news channels is about to launch a multi-part documentary series on modern slavery. Many of the programs, including the series premiere, will feature FTS co-founder and president, Kevin Bales. The series is called “Slavery: A...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 21, 2010 | Slavery in the News
There was a great piece in the New York Times Op Ed section yesterday that illustrates how modern day slavery can become an entrenched part of a community. The piece decries the apathy of the Hawaiian public, over a recent, massive, human trafficking bust that...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 15, 2010 | Slavery in the News
On September 2, news broke of the biggest human trafficking bust in the history of the U.S. Beverly Hills-based labor recruiting agency Global Horizons Manpower’s CEO (an Israeli man named Mordechai Orian) and five of his colleagues where indicted for enslaving...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 7, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Four of the six people indicted in what is being called the biggest human trafficking case in US history have turned themselves in, or are scheduled to surrender by early this week. Israeli national Mordechai Orian, 45, surrendered to authorities in Honolulu on...
