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Pimps feed on twisting Californian dream
Orange County, California (CNN) - "Hello? Hey, what are you doing, girl? You just woke up? You going to be free to hang out in a little bit?" Shane, a vice unit undercover investigator, is on the phone...
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Setting up the sting
Police officers in Anaheim, California, conduct an undercover operation aimed at sex traffickers.
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The vice unit catches their man
In our Freedom Project Undercover series, you've seen the fight against human traffickers through the eyes of the investigators. In the fifth and final installment of our trip to Orange County,...
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'Trapped by Tradition': Your questions on slavery in India
Last week we asked for your questions about 'Trapped by Tradition', the documentary featuring actor Anil Kapoor which explored how in someIndia villages girls are sent into prostitution by their...
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Undercover: Taking down a crime syndicate in Spain
Undercover police are on the frontlines of the fight against human trafficking and the Freedom Project has accompanied several agencies that have given CNN unprecedented access to ongoing...
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Inside a Nigerian prostitution bust
CNN went undercover with the Mossos d'Esquadra - the human trafficking unit in the Catalonia region of Spain - as it tackled a major investigation into Chinese prostitution in the region. Now, the unit...
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Breaking the chains: Freedom's successes
(CNN) - Since its launch in March, the CNN Freedom Project has helped shine a spotlight on all aspects of modern-day slavery and spurred action from governments, corporations and individuals. CNN...
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Undercover filmmaker: Trafficker priced me up
By Mimi Chakarova, Special to CNN Click to watch video For the past decade, photographer-filmmaker Mimi Chakarova has examined conflict, corruption and the sex trade. Her film "The Price of Sex," a...
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Life gets strange hunting traffickers in the U.S.
Editor’s Note: CNN Freedom Project this week is reporting from the front lines in the fight against sex trafficking - not in the poverty-stricken developing world but in affluent Orange County near Los...
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U.S. Midwest in crosshairs of child sex trafficking fight
By Deborah Feyerick & Sheila Steffen, CNN Tamara Vandermoon is barely recognizable in the photo she holds up; her face is swollen and bruised, her eyes nearly battered shut. She was 19 at the time....
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Inside Cambodia's hidden brothels
Karaoke bars are a common front for child prostitution. As part of the documentary "Every Day in Cambodia", Oscar-winning actress and activist Mira Sorvino writes about what it was like going behind...
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Mira Sorvino: The mothers were desperate
Oscar-winning actress and anti-slavery activist Mira Sorvino joined a CNN team to investigate the child sex trade in Cambodia. She met the victims and the people who sold them - including three...
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Mira’s Cambodia Journal – Day One: Arrival in Cambodia
Editor’s note: Mira Sorvino, a human rights activist and Academy Award winning actress, went to Cambodia with the CNN Freedom Project to expose child sexual exploitation. This is an edited journal from...
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Ghana: Journalist goes undercover to expose traffickers
Police in Ghana storm a camp being used to keep children in slavery after one journalist spent weeks infiltrating the traffickers. In this video, CNN correspondent Vlad Duthiers meets the journalist...
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