The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Red Hill pen in Jamaica was left to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1749 and the hospital was given hundreds of thousands of pounds (in today's money) by the British Government as 'compensation' for their losses when slavery was abolished in 1834.

A century and a half before the celebrated British actor was born, Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors enslaved hundreds of people and forced them to toil away on a sugar plantation in Barbados.

In 1994, the Australian federal government finally extended recognition to Australian South Sea Islander people as a distinct cultural group. This recognition was important: racism put Australian South Sea Islanders at a disadvantage, yet there was little public recognition of the unique circumstances they and their ancestors had experienced and…

The ex-premier offered advice to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he seeks to prevent people exploiting modern slavery rules to avoid deportation.

Farzana Kausar from Worthing, Sussex, has been jailed for modern slavery after hiring the 62-year-old woman and taking control of every aspect of her life over a 16-year period

Greater Manchester police believe part of mill used as illegal cannabis factory

The exploitation of tens of thousands of people through modern slavery is a human rights crisis. There are an estimated 130,000 people currently living in modern slavery in the UK alone.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology comes as many nations' colonial histories have received scrutiny because of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd in the U.S.

Supreme Court temporarily blocks the end of Trump-era immigration policy