Breaking the chains: Freedom's successes
(CNN) - Since its launch in March, the CNN Freedom Project has helped shine a spotlight on all aspects of modern-day slavery and spurred action from governments, corporations and individuals. CNN...
View ArticleFormer domestic slave reunited with mother in Taiwan
When she was about 7, Isabel was sold into domestic servitude to a wealthy Taiwan family who later moved to California. She endured a childhood of constant work and beatings and only escaped when she...
View ArticleNepalese dying to work
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) - Twenty-one-year-old Ramila Syangden weeps uncontrollably as she clutches her 10-month-old baby. She sits and watches as the pyre where her husband’s body will be cremated is...
View ArticleBeedi industry's child workers trapped in economic slavery
Editor's note: Davinder Kumar is an award-winning development journalist who works for children’s rights organization Plan International. Five-year-old Aliya thinks it is a game she must master quickly...
View ArticleBonded labor stretches from third to first world
Editor's Note: Anti-trafficking expert Siddharth Kara is the author of “Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia,” providing the first comprehensive overview of bonded labor in South...
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It's time for anti-slavery action, Mr. President
By David Abramowitz, Special for CNN Editor's note: David Abramowitz is Vice President, Policy & Government Relations for Humanity United and Director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking...
View ArticleSaudi princess charged with human trafficking
A woman identified as a Saudi Arabian princess has been accused of holding a domestic servant against her will at her condominium in Irvine, California. Meshael Alayban, 42, faces one felony count of...
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Fighting forced labor helps women beat poverty
By Guy Ryder, Special for CNN Editor’s Note: Guy Ryder is the Director-General of the International Labour Organization. This week it is launching The Work in Freedom program, an initiative funded by...
View ArticleI was a modern-day slave in America
Ima Mutal was 17 when she left her home in Indonesia to work as a nanny in Los Angeles. As soon as she entered the U.S. her passport was confiscated by her new "employer" and her servitude began....
View ArticleReport shines light on slave labor in U.S.
They work on U.S. construction sites and farms, in restaurants and hotels, even in homes. Foreign workers, lured by false promises of good jobs in America, soon find themselves enslaved in plain sight...
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