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 ...

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

Europe rsquo;s migration problem on its southern borders has been developing for decades. It has reached a crisis. In an effort to stem the flow of refugees, th ...

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 ...

Tom Flanagan: Apologizing for slavery would be a distortion of history Canada was a world leader in the abolition of slavery. So why does an NDP MP want the government to issue an apology?

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 ...

State Reps. Dontavius Jarrells, D-Columbus, and Veronica Sims, D-Akron, are working on a joint resolution that would remove slavery from the state’s constitution.

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