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U.N. expert concludes 'forced labour' has taken place in Xinjiang

It is "reasonable to conclude" that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China's western Xinjiang region, the UN's top expert on slavery said in a report released this week, prompting a fierce response from Beijing.

Reuters

‘Reasonable to conclude’ forced labour in China: UN expert

Special rapporteur on slavery says some abuses in Xinjiang could amount to “crime against humanity”.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes

As a historian in the age of the 1619 Project and the debates over “critical race theory,” I find many of the audiences I address fall into one of two camps. Some celebrate American exceptionalism and resist dwelling on horrors like slavery or settler colonialism. Others primarily see a centuries-long…

Los Angeles Times

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Mum who 'sold seven-year-old son had advertised him on human organ transplant sites'

Mum Nargiza Aitmatova from Kyrgyzstan was caught in a sting operation by Russian police and anti-slavery groups after she agreed to sell her son even going so far as to advertise his healthy organs on a transplant site

Daily Mirror

Politicians seek to control classroom discussions about slavery in the US

Of all the subjects taught in the nation’s public schools, few have generated as much controversy of late as the subjects of racism and slavery in the United States.

The Conversation

Mum-of-three accused of trying to sell her son, 7, to strangers for £4,000

Volunteers from an anti-slavery charity posed as purchasers, responding to the woman’s advertisement and then claim they met her in the food court of a shopping mall

Daily Mirror

Suspected modern slavery victims in UK ‘at highest quarterly level on record’

Some 4,171 potential victims of trafficking, slavery and forced labour were referred to the Home Office between April and June.

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Commentary: California’s never-ending secessionist movement — and its grim ties to slavery in the state

Here we go again. Another county — this time San Bernardino — is threatening to break away from California to form its own state. Petitions and plots of this sort pop up almost annually but then invariably fizzle. Yet however quixotic state division may seem, it has a much deeper,…

Los Angeles Times

Are the Commonwealth Games a joyful extravaganza – or anachronistic, offensive and a waste of time?

The legacy of colonialism looms large – isn’t a history of empire and exploitation, slavery and subjugation to be condemned, not celebrated?

The Guardian - AU

Bogeyman review – Haiti and the price of revolution

The first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud’s alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals

The Guardian - UK

Special unit set up to beat modern slavery and human trafficking

Team will support victims of serious and organised crime

Manchester Evening News

Friday essay: a slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

The Conversation

Fighting the modern slavery that is hiding in plain sight is more important that pulling down old statues

Owner of car wash taken to court over pay and conditions of migrant workers

Daily Mirror

Trevor Noah on drone strike: ‘America never forgets … unless it’s slavery’

Late-night hosts discuss the killing of al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan and Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

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James Hutton Brew: Gold Coast abolitionist who exposed Britain's anti-slavery hypocrisy

The literature and research on the abolition of slavery in places like Gold Coast (modern day Ghana) has tended to have a Eurocentric focus. Most has focused on colonial anti-slavery legislation and the abolitionist activities of Europeans. The contributions made by local Africans have been almost entirely ignored. When mentioned…

The Guardian - US

Frederick Douglass gets the Hamilton treatment with new musical

American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture

Mic

People are renting out actual slave cabins on Airbnb

A TikTok revealed a a disturbing trend of turning plantation slave quarters into “cute” hotel rooms.

Zenger

The Scottish Parliament Could Make A National Apology For Slavery

The Scottish Parliament could make a national apology for slavery according to Scottish National Party proposals.

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The Guardian - UK

Athletic feats at Commonwealth Games cannot distract from Britain’s colonial sins

The lasting damage that slavery and colonialism have inflicted on Commonwealth countries has never been fully addressed

The Independent UK

Man accused of helping politician to ‘bring man to UK to harvest his kidney’

Obinna Obeta, 50, from Southwark, south London, is charged under the Modern Slavery Act.

Pedestrian.tv

NSW Gov Really Wants Kids Under 18 To Work Off COVID Fines It’s Giving Child Slavery

What the fuck is going on here on this day.

The Conversation

Mo Farah was trafficked to the UK – the government's new immigration law could make it harder for modern slavery victims to receive help

Sir Mo Farah has bravely revealed that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, taken to a new country by a woman he didn’t know and forced to work as a domestic servant.

The Independent UK

Revealed: ‘Hidden epidemic’ of abusive cults in UK, with 2,000 groups operating freely

Thousands have suffered sexual abuse, isolation from friends and family and modern slavery at the hands of UK cults

Wales Online

My neighbour groomed me and I was driven to dirty houses full of men where I was raped 1,500 times

'Be alert to what's going on and don't think that it can't happen in Wales. Anybody could be a victim and every child is vulnerable'

Daily Mirror

'Sir Mo Farah is right about modern slavery - and women are still suffering today'

Columnist Saira Khan writes on the so-called arranged marriages that are destroying women's lives as they are trapped in a life of modern-day slavery, too scared to escape or speak out

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