The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Trade in uncertified hardwood illegally logged in Chocó rainforest and imported by US and Europe is financing paramilitaries, says Environmental Investigation Agency

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

If history textbooks were more like this Instagram account, maybe more kids would open them. Or at least try to.

The rise is thought to be partly down to an increase in exploitation of migrant women in the care sector, Unseen said.

In her groundbreaking book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897, Cheryl Thompson, professor of performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, maps the transnational flow of minstrel culture and racial ideologies, revealing how blackface performance — and the racism it reflects — was not strictly an American…

Australian workers in "modern slavery" conditions are being exploited by their employers, left in debt and often assaulted, an inquiry has been told.

Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians

Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’

Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery

For years, French cinema has ignored stories that dealt with France’s colonial history, but something is now changing.

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country $US21 billion.