The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

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…

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.

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery

Thirty-five arrests after hundreds of barbershops and other businesses raided in UK money-laundering investigation

Ten shops were shut down, and further closures are expected after police forces across the country visited 265 cash-focused businesses