Slavery
Taliban penal code legalizes slavery, places women below animals, expert tells 'Post' - interview
Under the Taliban’s penal code, which includes 119 articles, published on January 7, 2026, the penalty for animal abuse outweighs that of a serious case of domestic violence.
Parashat Bo: The world is catching up, again
Doha clears UK activist Andy Hall of defamation over migrant rights case
North Koreans sent to Russia working 'like slaves' - report
Trump asks Liberian president where he learned English, his country's official language
"Such good English," Trump told Liberian President Joseph Boakai. "Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"
Mother convicted for trafficking 6-year-old daughter to traditional healer for 'eyes and skin'
The courts heard from witnesses that Kelly Smith sold Joshlin Smith for her "eyes and skin" to a traditional healer.
Over 100,000 bodies: Largest slave burial site in Latin America found in Brazil
The site may be the largest cemetery of enslaved people in Latin America and could be recognized as the 'Archaeological Site Cemetery of the Africans'.
Centuries-old Danish slave shipwrecks discovered off Costa Rica’s coast
“This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch.
Ugandan UN judge jailed in Britain for more than six years for forced labor offense
Mugambe argued that she had diplomatic immunity in her native Uganda, which was subsequently removed.
Trump: 'I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes'
Columbus Day is celebrated annually on the second Monday of October.
The Passover paradox: Being given freedom from slavery, but also new strict rules
Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?
Couple sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison after keeping adopted black kids as slaves
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to 215 years in prison and her 64-year-old husband Donald Lantz received a sentence of 160 years.
'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
UN judge 'exploited and abused' Ugandan woman she kept as enslaved while in UK
Mugambe was appointed to the UN's judicial roster in May 2023, three months after police were called to her address in Oxfordshire, according to her UN profile page.