CNN Freedom Project explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: CNN Documents Manny Pacquiao, Human Rights Pioneer's Anti-Slavery Fight . . 2013-05-16 . 2016-01-02.
2. Web site: Tony Maddox . U.S. Department of State . Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes . 2015 . 17 July 2019 .
3. Web site: Dominika Kulczyk, for. Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta. 2020-12-19. CNN.
4. Web site: How CNN reported on 'child slaves' who were not really enslaved . Okyere . Samuel . aljazeera.com . 18 March 2019 . 30 July 2019 .