That’s it from us on the live blog. Thank you for all your videos, artworks and creative messages from around the world.
My Freedom Day is over for 2020, but the fight against modern day slavery continues. See you next year!
“Freedom is no one judging my race.”
Children at Al Faris International School in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, share what freedom means to them.
In Brazil, Year 6 students at Red House International School gave presentations to younger students, mobilizing the whole school in the fight against modern-day slavery.
On Delta Flight 872 from Atlanta to San Salvador, crew took the time to deliver a special #MyFreedomDay message for all on board.
On #MyFreedomDay CNN’s Richard Quest recalls meeting farmers in Ivory Coast who had never tasted chocolate produced from the cocoa they grew.
Students in Quito, Ecuador, have taken part in #MyFreedomDay with activities and drawings, spreading the meaning of freedom.
“Freedom is living without fear.” Fifth graders at Atlanta International School tell CNN what freedom means to them.
Students at North Springs High School in Atlanta are joining the fight against human trafficking by taking part in #MyFreedomDay.
“Freedom isn’t just a feeling, freedom is a fact. Trafficking is the fastest growing business and we need to put it out of business. End trafficking. Freedom for all,” Ruth Dearnley, CEO of Stop the Traffik, says on #MyFreedomDay.
CNN’s Zain Asher interviews “Choco-evangelist” Ynzo van Zanten of slave-free chocolate company Tony’s Chocolonely. Van Zanten has been educating children in Amsterdam on the true human price of chocolate, and implores other organisations to take responsibility for their supply chains.
Begging for change
More than 100,000 children are forced to beg for food or money in Senegal. Issa Kouyate is trying to help them.
Bassam, we couldn’t agree more. (Via CNN’s Arwa Damon.)
Children are an overlooked ally in the fight against human trafficking, writes law professor Jonathan Todres, and ignoring them means missing out on important insights that can help the anti-trafficking movement.
In Brazil, freedom is playing basketball, while in Cambodia it’s all about the freedom to dance.
Students at Atlanta International School tell CNN’s Lynda Kinkade why their school has been running an anti-trafficking club for 10 years.
WE Charity co-founder Craig Kielburger tells CNN about the first time he took part in a raid to free children from a factory in India, and one boy’s touching response.
In Faith Cherop’s community it was common for young girls to get married.
But she convinced her father to instead let her go to school, and demonstrate the power of education.
Here’s what freedom means to students at Colegio SanCristobal, in Spain.
And at Institut Marta Mata, via anti-slavery group A21España.
Sold by their parents, around 20,000 children work on Ghana’s Lake Volta, enslaved by the fishermen they call “master.”
Students around the world are painting and designing to express what freedom means to them. In Turkey, students created art projects.
And these impressive projects.
Students in Abu Dhabi turned to advocacy art.
In Ecuador, students painted this dramatic picture.
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