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Slavery Survivor & FTS Freedom Award Winner Runs for Parliament in Pakistan

by Terry FitzPatrick | May 10, 2013 | Slavery in the News

Veero Kolhi is no stranger to adversity. She escaped single-handedly from slavery, and she’s helped hundreds of others overcome fear and intimidation to also break free. That’s why Free the Slaves honored Veero in 2009 with a Frederick Douglass Freedom Award....

Pakistan: Official Says Gvn’t “Unable to Fully Control the Menace of Human Trafficking”

by Free the Slaves | May 11, 2011 | Slavery in the News

Free the Slaves’ U.K. partner Anti-Slavery International estimates there are over 1.8 million people living in slavery in Pakistan. Canadian NGO SOS Children’s Villages recently sited an Asian Human Rights Commission report highlighting the enslavement of...

Pakistan: From Slave to Abolitionist, One Woman’s Journey

by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 23, 2010 | FTS Updates

Veero took a terrifying risk to break free from slavery. She slipped away, alone and on foot, from a farm where men were kept in leg irons and women were guarded by armed thugs. She now shows others how they can walk to freedom too. Read more about Veero’s...

Pakistani NGO Brings 39 Slaves To Freedom

by Free the Slaves | Aug 5, 2010 | Slavery in the News

Some great news from our friends at the Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO)—one of the leading anti slavery organizations in Pakistan. GRDO succeeded in bringing 39 bonded laborers into freedom. The organization sent an email announcement to Free the Slaves,...

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