Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865. While that seems recent to many, imagine living in a small African country like Mauritania where slavery was only outlawed in 1981.

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

Three people and two companies went on trial in France on Thursday accused of forcing dozens of African migrants to live and work in squalid conditions during last year's grape harvest in the ...

Europe’s migration problem on its southern borders has been developing for decades. It has reached a crisis. In an effort to ...

French prosecutors have requested two years behind bars for an employer in the champagne sector accused of human trafficking, ...

The Mufti in delivering a Fatwa of two views doesn’t have the right to choose a view that appeals to him without research, but he should choose the preferable one”. We don’t follow licenses of schools ...

At the end of 2009, after several years of deadly terrorist attacks and limited results from military responses, Mauritania’s authorities decided to tackle the causes of religious radicalisation. They ...

The World Bank Group has released the eighth edition of its Mauritania Economic Update, highlighting the Mauritanian government’s continued efforts to preserve macroeconomic stability and strengthen ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - Slavery is still allowed in Ohio’s constitution as a punishment for crime. Some Ohio lawmakers want to change that to eliminate mentions of slavery from the state’s ...

Slavery was white men’s and women’s business. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year ...