Slave Trade

Google has removed a Portuguese-language game that allowed players to trade and torture Black virtual "slaves" while strategising to block the abolition of slavery. The move came after a racism outcry in the country, and the prosecutor's office has opened a "hate speech" probe into the game downloaded by hundreds of people.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands' involvement in slavery, calling it a "crime against humanity".

Lewis Hamilton was commenting after protesters in the British city of Bristol toppled the bronze statue of Edward Colston, who made his fortune in the slave trade.

Researchers have identified Redoshi as the last known African-born survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade when she died in 1937, according to a statement released Tuesday by Newcastle University in Great Britain.

In the summer of 1860, half a century after the United States banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Capt. William Foster sneaked 110 African slaves into Mobile, Alabama - and knew that the floating evidence of the illegal deed could get him killed.

The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country’s sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said today. At least 40 Thai women have been rescued this year during police raids on massage parlours acting as fronts ...

A new report on fighting human trafficking in conflict says there is growing evidence that terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and Boko Haram, are reviving slavery and organizing slave markets.

A Caribbean trade bloc has requested a meeting with European nations that engaged in the Atlantic slave trade to talk about reparations.

As many as 12,000 foreign women were smuggled into Britain and forced to work as "sex slaves" so that crime gangs could earn hundreds of millions of pounds, a study has said.The two-year study, dubbed Project Acumen, revealed that prostitutes live and work in appalling conditions and suffer rape and imprisonment. Most of the trafficked women were f...

It was the third year of the IPL auction and I am yet to get in terms with this bidding format. Why? Well, this auctioning of players gives me a feeling of slave trading with a modern day shrewdness and capitalistic ruthlessness. May be a bit over the top, but it's completely a personal opinion.

Google has removed a Portuguese-language game that allowed players to trade and torture Black virtual "slaves" while strategising to block the abolition of slavery. The move came after a racism outcry in the country, and the prosecutor's office has opened a "hate speech" probe into the game downloaded by hundreds of people.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands' involvement in slavery, calling it a "crime against humanity".

Lewis Hamilton was commenting after protesters in the British city of Bristol toppled the bronze statue of Edward Colston, who made his fortune in the slave trade.

Researchers have identified Redoshi as the last known African-born survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade when she died in 1937, according to a statement released Tuesday by Newcastle University in Great Britain.

In the summer of 1860, half a century after the United States banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Capt. William Foster sneaked 110 African slaves into Mobile, Alabama - and knew that the floating evidence of the illegal deed could get him killed.

The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country’s sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said today. At least 40 Thai women have been rescued this year during police raids on massage parlours acting as fronts ...

A new report on fighting human trafficking in conflict says there is growing evidence that terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and Boko Haram, are reviving slavery and organizing slave markets.

A Caribbean trade bloc has requested a meeting with European nations that engaged in the Atlantic slave trade to talk about reparations.

As many as 12,000 foreign women were smuggled into Britain and forced to work as "sex slaves" so that crime gangs could earn hundreds of millions of pounds, a study has said.The two-year study, dubbed Project Acumen, revealed that prostitutes live and work in appalling conditions and suffer rape and imprisonment. Most of the trafficked women were f...

It was the third year of the IPL auction and I am yet to get in terms with this bidding format. Why? Well, this auctioning of players gives me a feeling of slave trading with a modern day shrewdness and capitalistic ruthlessness. May be a bit over the top, but it's completely a personal opinion.