Slavery Abolition

Image source, Lauren/Geograph Image caption, Trinity College has pledged to donate £1m over five years to Cambridge Caribbean Scholarships A Cambridge University college is to appoint an academic to a four-year post to examine its legacies of slavery. Trinity College said its new Legacies of Slavery Research and Teaching Fellow…

Operation Makesafe awareness training has been rolled out to staff from businesses across Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford and around the local area. The Specialist Crime Command's Modern Slavery and Child Exploitation team and Stratford's Safer Neighbourhoods Team, working in partnership with the Safer Business Network, held an event on…

Participants at a lecture on new ideas for engagement with the African diaspora, have called for the institution of a truth and reconciliation process to help settle and assuage the scourge of slavery and to hasten the integration of African -Americans and Afro- Caribbeans back to the African continent. The…

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted a draft plan with suggestions on how to pay millions in reparations to the city’s Black residents, in an effort to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. The case for reparations has been made many times in recent years, particularly…

Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family. These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed…

Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was stolen from present-day Russia and enslaved, according to new research that will upend Italy’s understanding of its most famous artist. In another extraordinary twist, Italian historian Carlo Vecce has claimed that she was freed from slavery by da Vinci’s father, who was himself a well-known…

Elizabeth Marcelo - The Philippine Star March 14, 2023 | 12:00am In a statement issued yesterday, the CHR emphasized the Philippine government “must seriously consider and act” on the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), particularly on providing sexual abuse victims “full…

Julie Su has come a long way since she first made headlines in 1995 when she, then just 26 years old, was lead lawyer for 72 Thai workers who were essentially kept in slavery, toiling 18 hours a day at a sweatshop just outside Los Angeles. Last week Joe Biden…

James Relativo - The Philippine Star March 11, 2023 | 4:21pm Members of the Lila Pilipina lay flowers at the pedestal of a statue depicting a Filipino ‘comfort woman’ to mark the 30th anniversary of the ‘Flowers for Lolas’ campaign in Baclaran, Parañaque yesterday. The statue, shown in a tarpaulin…

Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th century law governing the treatment of slaves. The preliminary opinion by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner – delivered in a long-running dispute between a divorced…