Slavery

Noting the goals and resolutions of the future are extremely important for the country, the Prime Minister said that equal emphasis has to be laid on key priority areas of the present2

In its latest report, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) said that 50 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021

How does one calculate reparations? Who decides how the money will be spent? If it is to be distributed, who will get how much - and as cash, or in some other form - wonders T N Ninan

California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system

Eleven US mayors from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee Oklahoma have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in their cities

Book review of THE CROOKED PATH TO ABOLITION: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

It is such detailed work on forced labour that could have been significant

The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the bodies of the powerless

Trump's appeal to remember history came as his own relationship with the military is under strain

The economics of slavery were probably detrimental to the rise of US manufacturing and almost certainly toxic to the economy of the South

Nearly 46 million people live under conditions of slavery across the world

It also will help mills implement policies to improve worker conditions, assess their compliance and provide certification

Numbers see an almost 23% jump from the 14.3 million that were enslaved last year