CNN's Freedom Project shines a spotlight on the horrors of modern-day slavery, highlighting success stories and helping unravel the complicated tangle of human trafficking.
In a CNN Freedom Project special report, actress and long-time advocate Jada Pinkett Smith travels to Atlanta – a trafficking hotspot - to try and unravel the complicated web of human trafficking that’s happening in the United States.
Two years after CNN exposed "Chocolate's Child Slaves", correspondent Richard Quest takes The CNN Freedom Project back to the cocoa plantations of the Ivory Coast.
Following a two-year CNN investigation, the two-hour documentary The Fighters chronicles Philippine human rights pioneer Cecilia Flores-Oebanda in her journey to protect children from the sex trade and convince the Philippines' biggest star, Manny Pacquiao, to join her as a fighter in the battle against modern-day slavery.
In May 2011, the CNN Freedom Project highlighted the story of a 7-year-old boy kidnapped off the streets of Bangladesh by a criminal gang that, according to authorities, for years snatched children, crippled them, and then forced them to beg. When this young boy refused – he was beaten, stabbed and mutilated. His injuries shocked everyone who saw the story. But one CNN viewer was so outraged, he took a stand. He offered to help the boy, and triggered a chain reaction of goodwill that spanned the globe – and changed the boy’s life.
The quarter-century since the collapse of the Berlin Wall has seen Germany regain its place at the centre of the European economy as a reunified and reborn country overcame its growing pains.
