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More than 23,000 files were left open by the last government, says minister, with delays of up to four years in assigning victim status

Peers say protections have been undermined by three immigration acts passed by the previous government

California and Nevada voters to vote on banning forced prison labor tied to slavery. Advocates seek fair treatment for incarcerated individuals.

Sir Keir Starmer has set out the Labour government’s position on the slavery reparations ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting this month

California and Nevada voters will decide in November if they want to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery

Reparations is expected to be a key talking point in Samoa

Keir Starmer is going to Samoa to ‘discuss shared challenges and opportunities’, says spokesperson

There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, someone in the audience always asserts that we can’t possibly compare past divisions to the present,…

Trio were found guilty of modern slavery offences and money laundering

Michael Thurmond’s book about the ‘father of Georgia’ followed a surprise discovery that the former enslaver was an abolitionist

It is little explored that the father of the great architect’s patron, Eusebi Güell, made much of his fortune from slavery in Cuba