A victim of modern slavery says he was forced to crawl naked through sewers to steal electricity after trusting bogus ...

After rescuing two Bolivian women held as slaves in a home in Sao Paulo last year and recouping the wages they were owed, ...

Refugees and human trafficking survivors in Britain are being forced to choose between buying food or data to access an ...

Discover why Saudi Arabia abolished the 50-year-old Kafala labor sponsorship system, once seen as 'modern-day slavery.' Learn ...

The United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, enacted on March 26 2015, has turned ten years old. The legislation, which nominally introduced and strengthened protections for people who survived situations ...

Back in January, Florida barred its schools from piloting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. At the time, the state’s evaluators justified this decision with reference to the ...

In 1918, prominent American historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips framed institutional slavery as a “school” that provided adequate training in modern technology and helped “civilize” slaves. “All of this ...

Slavery was just on the ballot. On Election Day, voters in Alabama, Tennessee, Vermont, and Oregon changed their state constitutions to prohibit involuntary servitude as a punishment for people ...

The American prison system has often been described as a new form of slavery. Now, a prison official in Arizona has essentially acknowledged that this is the case, all while making the argument that ...

A major exhibition that explores the history of slavery during the Dutch colonial period will travel to the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York this month for a four-week display.

Shabana Mahmood, the Housing Secretary, says she will fight to end ‘vexatious’ last-minute claims by migrants trying to frustrate their deportations - Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty ...