CNN Freedom Project

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The CNN Freedom Project is a year-long humanitarian news media campaign launched by CNN and CNN International in 2011 to "end modern-day slavery" and related illegal practices, including human trafficking.[1]

It was started on the initiative of CNN International's vice president

Trafficking in Persons Report Hero.[2]

In March 2019 its reporting on

apprentices rather than slaves.[4]

References

  1. Christian Post
    . 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
  2. ^ U.S. Department of State (2015). "Tony Maddox". Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  3. ^ Dominika Kulczyk, for. "Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta". CNN. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  4. ^ Okyere, Samuel (18 March 2019). "How CNN reported on 'child slaves' who were not really enslaved". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

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