Modern slavery includes any system where people are forced to work or exploited under threat, deception, or coercion. The Global Slavery Index has identified 10 countries where slavery is most ...

Labour MP Camilla Belich and National MP Greg Fleming combine forces with modern slavery bill that aims to 'stand against ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was built on the continuing problem of racism and the 1640 movement aimed to ...

This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — When Nasreen Sheikh walks down a busy street, she doesn’t see the faces of the people walking by – she sees the clothes they wear and the suffering of those who made them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Shackles. Cotton. The Big House. Americans tend to think of slavery in ...

Today National and Labour announced that they will invoke a never-before-used Parliamentary rule (Standing Order 288 or the Rule of 61) to progress a joint Modern Slavery Bill co-sponsored by National ...

The 2023 Global Slavery Index says modern slavery has got worse since its last survey — LOUISA GOULIAMAKI North Korea, Eritrea and Mauritania have the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world ...

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the... How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the ...

Forced labour and marriage have increased significantly over the last five years, according to a new UN report. The latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, published by the International Labour ...

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in ...