The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

The head of the United Nations called for reparations to "overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination" during their ...

The United Nation’s (UN) International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is observed every year on March 25. On Monday, the chief of the ...

About 50 million people live in modern slavery worldwide, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message marking International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on Dec. 2. The condition ...

A United Nations official who denounced Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” nearly a year ago doubled down on his criticism in ...

It comes after the the Prime Minister of Barbados told United Nations that reparations for slavery and colonialism should be part of a new 'global reset'. Mia Mottley, who is leading the demands ...

GENEVA - The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday ...

According to the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (GLOTIP) by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), children are twice as likely as adults to face violence during trafficking.