Slavery Abolition

Africa Day Spotlight: Calls for Reparative Justice, Culinary Brilliance in Lyon, and Eco-Innovation in Uganda The African Union has intensified its call for reparative justice, urging the international community to confront and address the economic legacy of slavery and colonialism. The call comes amid growing global momentum for restitution, as…

Migrant workers who have lost limbs or been blinded in Australian workplaces fear they will be deported if they seek medical treatment, an inquiry into modern slavery has been told. Workers under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme were particularly vulnerable due to their strict visa conditions, which stop…

A man in Ecuador holds up a shirt with the slogan 'Furukawa, never again,' alluding to a Japanese textile firm found to have abused its workers. Photo: Galo Paguay / AFP Source: AFP Ecuador's government apologized Saturday to some 300 people who worked as farmers for a Japanese textile firm…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC), through its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Effiong Efa Nyong, has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s federal government, asserting that its most notable accomplishment is the “conspicuous weaponization of poverty across all segments of society. “The party’s statement describes Tinubu’s administration as having introduced an era of…

The establishment of the Organisation of African Unity on this day,  May 25, 1963 gave hope that Africans, at home and in the diaspora, finally had an institution through which they will reverse the centuries of humiliation, exploitation, oppression and dehumanisation visited on us through slavery and colonialism. However, through…

Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative. He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.” He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”; abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark…

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The data shows that schools have “diversified” their syllabi after the Conservative government encouraged the inclusion of “cultural change” in the curriculum. British children are being taught about the transatlantic slave trade instead of historical events like the victories at Waterloo and Trafalgar, a new study has found. Only 11…

Before sunrise in Baltimore on Friday, the Rev. Robert Turner, senior pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church, set out to walk 43 miles from his church to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Turner, who has made the trip from Baltimore…

Seventy-eight of the 150 young Nigerian women trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire for sex slavery were safely returned to the country in the early hours of Sunday, May 11. In April, social critic, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan raised alarm about the conditions of the trafficked girls. Thankfully, they returned home…