The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year

The previous quarterly record was 4,742 referrals between January and March 2023.

The Foreign Secretary is in Africa as he pursues a ‘fresh approach’ to partnerships across the continent.

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children

Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom -- engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now -- is not open to financial compensation, officials and analysts say.

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

Letters: Readers respond to Keir Starmer saying Britain will not participate in any slavery reparations

After months of relentless gang violence, thousands of killings, and the unseating of a government, Haiti is faced with another heartbreaking issue which seems likely to prolong the Caribbean island nation’s woes for another generation. Testimonies collected by Amnesty International have uncovered how Haiti’s armed gangs are enlisting hundreds of…