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Mauritania became the last country to abolish slavery 34 years ago, but despite ever harsher laws which now declare the practice a crime against...
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades...
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Reuters reports the US will upgrade Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of the world’s worst countries for human trafficking, a move...
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Someone might say that yes, we are finally as a nation, having a dialog about the Confederate flag and what it stands for. But...
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South Korea’s ageing victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery said Tuesday they would file a $20 million lawsuit next month at a US court...
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UN rights experts on Wednesday said Ghana had failed miserably to stamp out a centuries-old tradition in which virgin girls are offered as slaves...
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A Brazilian television series is planning to put the largely-unknown history of the country’s numerous slave descendants under the spotlight using DNA tests, news...
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Harvard scholar and the host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, revealed the ancestry of famous people and the results can be eyebrow-raising. Famed...
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Big money trades hands every day in New York’s financial district, and to fortune-seekers, Wall Street is seen as the epitome of the successful....
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British lawmakers gave their backing to a new anti-slavery law that forces businesses to be more transparent about their supply chains, the first piece...