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]
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- 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. Tony Maddox Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes, 2015, retrieved 17 July 2019^
- Dominika Kulczyk, for. Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta