Labour enshrined in law a promise that its state-run company GB Energy would not fund companies using forced labour.

Labour said its clean energy company would not give cash to firms exposed to slave labor risks. Now it is backtracking.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Volkswagen's Brazil unit has been ordered to pay 165 million reais ($30.44 million) in damages for subjecting workers on a farm to slavery-like conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 150 years after slaves were freed in the United States, four states voted Tuesday to remove language that permits forced ...

ADCRC Chair Marvin Slaughter Jr. claims slave labor contributed "7 quadrillion dollars" to the U.S. at a reparations panel at Kennedy King College in Chicago.

California and Nevada voters face landmark decisions on constitutional amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons, joining a growing movement to ...

A supervised work crew of female jail prisoners fills sandbags for distribution to local residents in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Titusville Florida in 2019. (Photo by Paul ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Channing Gerard Joseph It’s time that we finally ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...

A student in my “History of the Present” class asked me, “Do Californians really believe slavery is okay?” She referred to the defeat of California’s Proposition 6, which aimed to remove the so-called ...