When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Brazilian woman enslaved as a maid from the age of eight for almost four decades and forced into marriage has been rescued in a rare crackdown on ...

It’s been a tortuous journey for Francisca Awah. Last month, the 35-year-old from Cameroon spoke in front of an audience that included Ivanka Trump and the US Secretary of State, when she was honored ...

A leading labor activist is advocating for legislation that would ensure the rights and protections of millions of domestic workers across United States, saying their exclusion is “a legacy of slavery ...

Amnesty International (AI) said in a press release on Tuesday that Kenyan women working as domestic laborers in Saudi Arabia face extreme exploitation amounting to slavery and human trafficking The ...

I do not currently receive any external funding, but fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Virginia Humanities, and numerous other institutions did help fund the research that ...

UK Border Force agents recently joined forces with immigration and customs officers from the Bases and Cyprus for joint training on modern slavery.This joint initiative aims to bolster efforts against ...

This paper explores the place of domestic slaves in British families resident in India, c. 1780-1830, and the ways in which the presence of slaves within these Anglo-Indian households challenged ...

SHEFFIELD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter met 52-year-old Marish, a Hungarian factory worker and maid, she was drawn to her haggard face - one that seemed ...

In Guatemala, two former military officers are on trial for crimes of sexual and domestic slavery and forced disappearance perpetrated against indigenous Mayan women in 1982 during the U.S.-backed ...