The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Various prominent U.S. corporations, including Walmart and Intel, might be shying away from principled stances condemning foreign uses of slavery and child labor for the production of cheap consumer goods. An importation rule change proposes to eliminate declarations on imported goods that offer insights into where goods come from and…

Reclassifying modern slavery as immigration issue and rhetoric of ‘abusing the system’ are among concerns levelled at government

“The statistics regarding modern slavery only represent a fraction of the exploitation that takes place"

The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, with one exception: punishing people convicted of crimes.

The Dutch government will apologise later this year for its role in slavery during the nation's colonial past, a member of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Cabinet said on Friday.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates nearly 50 million people are trapped in slavery.

Despite promises by government to eradicate trafficking rings, people are still being sold in Cambodia and forced to run online scams

Perth Sheriff Court got a literary visitor, a playwright, in connection to a historic case heard there 244 years ago that freed a slave brought to work in a Perthshire mansion.

But GMP's Chief Contsable Stephen Watson warned of slavery and kids being 'savagely beaten' in the area

When Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham writes about someone as complex as Lincoln, and a time more divisive than today, there are important lessons to learn.

Hannah Debenham, 42, invited the mother and her ten-year-old daughter to live with them in Uckfield, East Sussex, after coming to an arrangement over babysitting - but the refugee called the police