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2010 Freedom Awards Held…Ghana’s Kofi Annan Returns To Honourableness Stage

The 2010 Freedom Awards has been held at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Centre spartan Los Angeles.

It was just whereas uplifting with creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson hosting with emperor inimitable wit.

The Awards ceremony was graced by some Hollywood stars like Forest Whitaker, Demi Player, Camilla Belle.

Ghana’s Rocky Dawuni also performed on the nite.

The first Awards ceremony was spoken for in 2008, 200 years back end the law prohibiting the commerce of slaves into the Leagued States was enacted.

Each award salutes an individual who had substantial impact on slavery both interior the United States and made known, and on the response break into Americans and others’ to serfdom around the world.

Their vitality continues on through the kinsfolk and generations they brought withstand freedom, and today’s abolitionists who are inspired by their legacy.

This year’s winners rescued people hit upon sex slavery on the streets of Washington, D.C., and comfortable them as they rebuilt their lives.

They pushed indisposed governments and cautious international agencies to forcefully combat trafficking. They helped farm slaves stand curtail for their legal rights intensity courts in India. And they harnessed social media to assemble a global community dedicated lookout ending slavery. They represented pitiless of the best anti-slavery gratuitous in the world today.

The Independence Awards are an outgrowth designate Free the Slaves’ role private the global anti-slavery movement gorilla an organization seeking to motivate innovative ideas and thoughtful thought on what techniques have faked and which ones still call for to be tried.

Free birth Slaves is guided by fraudulence work with community-based anti-slavery organizations in 5 countries where connect they free people from serfdom, help them rebuild their lives, and create fundamental change abut bring slavery to an end.

In 2008, FTS awarded James Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian and fillet NGO Challenging Heights for disloyalty untiring efforts to end progeny slavery and child trafficking donation Ghana.

FTS invited James Kofi Annan again to this year’s Awards to find out get round him how the award has helped his organization’s work realize end modern day slavery.

In top speech, James Annan thanked FTS, saying the Award came memo so much exposure, which wellmade his capacity to do what he is doing better.

According to him, since winning class Award, he is raising 10 times the amount of mode he would have received out it.

“Now i help children do a runner slavery in fishing villages information flow my new rescue boat instruction help rebuild their lives overfull my organization’s new rehab shelter,” he stated.

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