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Byline: Ben Butcher, Data Editor, Ollie Corfe Keir Starmer is facing demands to make reparations for slavery at a meeting of Commonwealth countries. The most widely-used figure is that the [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson When President Biden proclaimed Wednesday as Juneteenth Day of Observance, he called on Americans to 'recognize how the impact of America's original sin remains.' He listed his [...]

2024 AUG 17 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Marketing Weekly News -- The traditional historical view that white women were rarely involved in buying and selling [...]

2024 APR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Investigators publish new report on social science. According to news reporting from Kingston, Canada, by [...]

Byline: Dalya Alberge Early English enslavers sourced copper from Cornwall to create manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the transatlantic slavery trade, and used an impure mix to maximise their [...]

Egyptian building at the MCV campus. Photo by Kobi McCray Sarah Hagen, Contributing Writer 'MCV was built and operated using the labor of enslaved people,' stated VCU President Michael Rao [...]

Byline: CLYDE HUGHES Harvard University possesses human remains of 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans and has been urged to turn over the remains to [...]

Byline: Jordan AllumsJason Carroll Right now, Brown undergraduates are voting on historic referenda that call upon the University to identify the descendants of slaves it harmed during its involvement in [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss President Trump's 'patriotic education' commission released a report on Martin Luther King Day that equates American progressives with European fascists and says it is 'untrue' that the [...]

A prominent clergyman known as the 'vicar of Baghdad' has been accused of considering paying Isis $17,500 (£13,500) to free sex slaves. Canon Andrew White was president of the Foundation [...]

Byline: Kate Hodal How many slaves are there today, and who are they? The word 'slavery' conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships -- depictions that seem relegated firmly [...]

Byline: Chika Oduah Nigerian trafficking survivors who escape a life as sex workers or slaves are not getting enough support from their government, Human Rights Watch says. A 90-page report [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has previously made it clear that he has no interest in backing reparations for the descendants of slaves. He repeated his [...]

Byline: Eli Rosenberg Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a direct descendant of two slave owners in his family line, according to an NBC report published Monday. James McConnell and [...]

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is seeking an agreement between Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries to end the practice of Nigerian girls being [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: North Korean women are 'uniquely vulnerable' to sex trafficking in China, according to a report released Monday by [...]

Byline: Ed Cumming JEREMY CORBYN has praised the Evening Standard's investigation into modern slavery and said reforming legislation to fight it would be a key element of Labour's next manifesto. [...]

The Independent's special report on modern slavery, commissioned as part of our recent Slaves on Our Streets campaign, was launched on Tuesday evening at a gala reception at the Houses [...]

New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- http://resize.indiatvnews.com/en/resize/newbucket/715_-/2017/10/isis-1507649572.jpg Resorting to a new tactic to lure and retain members, militant groups are offering kidnapped women and girls to jihadist fighters as sex slaves [...]

TEHRAN -- More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by key anti-slavery groups to [...]

Byline: Taylor Bundren Slavery still exists. It's something that we don't talk about much today. Many people have no idea that there are currently an estimated 40 million enslaved peoples [...]

Students from Swaziland / Eswatini studying in Taiwan are being made to work in a frozen chicken factory for 40 hours a week to pay for tuition and accommodation. If [...]

Tarin Kot, June 16 -- Taliban militants are reportedly using sex slaves, boys in particular, to penetrate into the Afghan police forces and carry out insider attacks. According to an [...]

Byline: Nicholas Cecil and Joe Murphy ALBANIAN girls and women are being forced to work in 'slavery' in London's sex industry, a report warned today. The study raised the alarm [...]

Byline: Kieran Guilbert London, Oct 30, 2017 (Thomson Reuters Foundation/All Africa Global Media) -- More and better data is needed to track progress in the global drive to eradicate modern [...]

Because of the current controversy surrounding(http://www.thedailybeast.com/what-i-wish-democrats-would-say-about-confederate-monuments) Confederate monuments, Robert E. Lee's connection to slavery has become (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html?mcubz=0) a matter of debate. Complicating the discussion is that his image remains tied [...]

Some 40.3 million people around the world are trapped in conditions of slavery, according to a report released on Tuesday and presented to the UN General Assembly. Of the 40.3 [...]

Byline: Mark Tutton, CNN LONDON (CNN) -- More than 40 million people were estimated to be victims of modern slavery in 2016 -- and one in four of those were [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ordered the expulsion of an American-led Christian organization that rescues child [...]

2018 OCT 18 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Investigators publish new report on Science - Political Science. According to news reporting [...]

Baghdad, Jan. 20 -- Iraq witnessed a sharp increase in civilian deaths following the fall of large swaths of territory to the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014. [...]

Byline: Kevin Huggard On Thursday morning, the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation recommended that Georgetown formally apologize to the descendants of its former slaves and offer those descendants [...]

Byline: Ian Scoville STEPHANIE YUAN/THE HOYA Hours after the release of the report by the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, President DeGioia gave an address to discuss how [...]

Brussels: Public Register European Parliament has issued the following document: EN E-001892/2016 Answer given by Mr Avramopoulos on behalf of the Commission (1.7.2016) Irregular departures of migrants and refugees that [...]

The Netherlands has launched a major international investigation into the human trafficking behind Europe's plague of child pickpockets. AMSTERDAM -- Hundreds of Eastern European children are living what the Dutch [...]

Byline: ED ADAMCZYK BROADWAY NEDLANDS, Australia, May 31 (UPI) -- The Global Slavery Index estimates 45.8 million people worldwide live in slavery, with North Korea and India among the worst [...]

Byline: Linda Wheeler More than 170 years after 272 slaves owned by what is now Georgetown University in Washington were sold and forcefully shipped to the dreaded cotton plantations of [...]

South Sudan's soldiers have been allowed to rape and enslave women in lieu of collecting their salaries, according to a new UN report. JUBA, South Sudan -- In June, Elizabeth's [...]

Summary: Supporters of the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Britain are helping British girls as young as 14 to become sex slaves for the terrorists operating in Syria, a report says. [...]