Countries with a high prevalence of modern slavery share common challenges, including restricted civil liberties, authoritarian rule, and poor labor protections. In some cases, slavery is sponsored by ...

In his tome L’Esclavage dans le Monde Musulman (Slavery in the Muslim World), published in French by Amsterdam, M’hamed Oualdi, a professor at Sciences Po Paris says he wants to “cut through the ...

Today people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst. Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) actually said, "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody; we created it." An MSNBC "expert ...

(Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since its first law abolishing trade in African slaves received royal assent, in a major step toward ending a trade that shipped more than 10 million ...

Forced labor is a reality, and you might be using products made by workers who had no choice in the matter. The first edition of Global Slavery Index from the Walk Free Foundation, an anti-slavery NGO ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 million people around the world were living as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by ...

In world history, no topic is as culturally shameful, fraught, and continuously painful as slavery. Whether it's the extent of slavery among the world's oldest civilizations or the horrors of slavery ...