The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

A United Nations special rapporteur recently released a damning report describing Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program as a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” The report detailed the many ways migrant workers have been mistreated in Canada, including excessive work hours, limited breaks and physical abuse.

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has recently come under intense scrutiny, with a new United Nations report by a Special Rapporteur characterizing it as a systemic “breeding ground for contemporary slavery.”

Fiction and reality blur in this unruly but utterly engrossing show, which blends documentary and theatre – and will stay with you long after you have left

The Wake by Khaleb Brooks intended to aid reflection on victims of slavery while acknowledging its ongoing impact

Mayor Sadiq Khan says the memorial will ‘help to remind and educate Londoners of the capital’s role in this terrible treatment of human beings’

Michelle Charters urges more recognition and reconciliation on Unesco’s Slavery Remembrance Day

Former housekeeper worked ‘seven days a week for three years, and she had two days off in that entire time’, her lawyer says

When businesses work together – for whatever reason – they run the risk of breaching the competition laws enforced by our national watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Based on a three-year investigation, this rage-inducing documentary explores allegations of human trafficking by a Scottish fishing fleet – and its claims are truly grotesque

Author of Theory of War, inspired by her grandfather’s experience of slavery in the US, which won the Whitbread book of the year award in 1993

More than two centuries after Jane Austen died in 1817, many of the English novelist’s fans want to know her takes on her day’s big issues, including race, colonialism and slavery.