Slavery
Mother convicted for trafficking 6-year-old daughter to traditional healer for 'eyes and skin'
The courts heard from witnesses that Kelly Smith sold Joshlin Smith for her "eyes and skin" to a traditional healer.
Over 100,000 bodies: Largest slave burial site in Latin America found in Brazil
Centuries-old Danish slave shipwrecks discovered off Costa Rica’s coast
Ugandan UN judge jailed in Britain for more than six years for forced labor offense
Trump: 'I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes'
Columbus Day is celebrated annually on the second Monday of October.
The Passover paradox: Being given freedom from slavery, but also new strict rules
Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?
Couple sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison after keeping adopted black kids as slaves
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to 215 years in prison and her 64-year-old husband Donald Lantz received a sentence of 160 years.
'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
UN judge 'exploited and abused' Ugandan woman she kept as enslaved while in UK
Mugambe was appointed to the UN's judicial roster in May 2023, three months after police were called to her address in Oxfordshire, according to her UN profile page.
Hamas’s hostage releases are modern-day slave auctions - opinion
As the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes to an end, so, too, might the weekly hostage “auctions” that have been among its most defining optics.
Four people arrested for supposedly enslaving mentally disabled man for 17 years in Portugal
Four people were arrested in Portugal's northern Braganca region for enslaving a man for 17 years; the victim endured abuse, exploitation, and deprivation. Human trafficking concerns persist.
Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says
Portugal's colonial era, during which countries including Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and East Timor as well as parts of India were subjected to Portuguese rule.
The chocolate brand that started the fight against slavery
Tony's Chocolonely: Slave-Free Dutch Chocolate Debuts in Israel in Five Flavors
‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste
The film opens with the 2012 murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, later recreating Nazi-era Germany, the Jim Crow South and other moments it connects through the idea of caste.
Former African slave leads solidarity march to Jerusalem
Simon Deng – a South Sudanese freedom fighter, activist, Christian, and former slave – led marches to Jerusalem to show solidarity with Israel amid the war with Hamas.
