Slavery Case

The US Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit on Thursday against Cargill and Nestle USA that accused the food giants of aiding and abetting slavery by using cocoa harvested from plantations in the Ivory Coast that used forced child labor.

A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to stop them escaping while not at sea, prosecutors said in the island's latest abuse case involving migrant workers.

In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court on Friday convicted a retired army officer and a former paramilitary for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war. It sentenced them to 120 years and 240 years in prison respectively.

UK police say the two suspects in a major slavery case are from India and Tanzania and came to Britain in the 1960s.

Two people accused of holding three women captive in a London house for 30 years were released on bail on Friday, as Britain struggled to come to terms with its worst case of modern-day slavery.

British police have released two suspects on bail after they were arrested in connection with the case of three traumatised women who allegedly spent 30 years as slaves, Scotland Yard said Friday.

Locked up for three days in a second-storey highrise in Dwarka's Sector 6 allegedly by a doctor-couple on a six-day vacation in Bangkok, the girl's cries from her balcony alerted the neighbours. They had the gumption to call the officials of Shakti Vahini, an NGO, to rescue her with the help of police and fire personnel.

The US Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit on Thursday against Cargill and Nestle USA that accused the food giants of aiding and abetting slavery by using cocoa harvested from plantations in the Ivory Coast that used forced child labor.

A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to stop them escaping while not at sea, prosecutors said in the island's latest abuse case involving migrant workers.

In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court on Friday convicted a retired army officer and a former paramilitary for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war. It sentenced them to 120 years and 240 years in prison respectively.

UK police say the two suspects in a major slavery case are from India and Tanzania and came to Britain in the 1960s.

Two people accused of holding three women captive in a London house for 30 years were released on bail on Friday, as Britain struggled to come to terms with its worst case of modern-day slavery.

British police have released two suspects on bail after they were arrested in connection with the case of three traumatised women who allegedly spent 30 years as slaves, Scotland Yard said Friday.

Locked up for three days in a second-storey highrise in Dwarka's Sector 6 allegedly by a doctor-couple on a six-day vacation in Bangkok, the girl's cries from her balcony alerted the neighbours. They had the gumption to call the officials of Shakti Vahini, an NGO, to rescue her with the help of police and fire personnel.