CNN Freedom Project
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. It was started on the initiative of CNN International's vice president Tony Maddox, who was honored for this in 2015 by the U.S. Department of State as a Trafficking in Persons Report Hero. In March 2019 its reporting on child labor in fishing communities of Lake Volta in Ghana was criticized by the Ghanaian politician Betty Mensah and the academic Samuel Okyere, who said CNN ignored that many children become self-sufficient fishermen in adulthood and can thus be described as apprentices rather than slaves.
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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 Tony Maddox, who was honored for this in 2015 by the U.S. Department of State as a Trafficking in Persons Report Hero.[2]
In March 2019 its reporting on child labor in fishing communities of Lake Volta in Ghana[3] was criticized by the Ghanaian politician Betty Mensah and the academic Samuel Okyere, who said CNN ignored that many children become self-sufficient fishermen in adulthood and can thus be described as apprentices rather than slaves.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "CNN Documents Manny Pacquiao, Human Rights Pioneer's Anti-Slavery Fight". Christian Post. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
- ^ U.S. Department of State (2015). "Tony Maddox". Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ Dominika Kulczyk, for. "Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta". CNN. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Okyere, Samuel (18 March 2019). "How CNN reported on 'child slaves' who were not really enslaved". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 30 July 2019.