Legal scholar Daniel Ogunniyi, who has done research in this field, speaks about the intersection of climate change and modern slavery in Africa. What is modern slavery and how serious is it in ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before ... soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves, working in ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

Women rights advocates gathered at UN Headquarters for the world’s biggest meeting on gender equality have been sharing their ...

In the UK, offenders convicted of modern slavery crimes face life imprisonment as the maximum penalty, particularly for ...

Modern slavery occurs in almost every country in ... (15.1 million), followed by Europe and Central Asia (4.1 million), Africa (3.8 million), the Americas (3.6 million) and the Arab States ...

Justice Mugambe, 49, also a High Court judge in Uganda, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a ...

The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, ...

A new study by researchers at the consumer genetics company 23andMe has paired tens of thousands of genetic profiles with detailed historical records to trace the ancestry of modern-day African ...

Mauritius, Lesotho and Botswana have the lowest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa. Research suggests that of these, some 3.8 million people toil in forced labour in Africa.

Forced marriage, forced begging and descent-based slavery, which are common in many African countries, may also fit modern slavery. Descent-based slavery refers to situations in which people are ...