Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Channing Gerard Joseph It’s time that we finally ...

California and Nevada voters face landmark decisions on constitutional amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons, joining a growing movement to ...

Assembly Bill 2599 would compel major corporations doing business in California to examine their history and disclose ties to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

A self-proclaimed New Jersey pastor and his wife forced church members into slave labor and sex for nearly a decade — telling them God would punish them if they didn’t submit, federal prosecutors said ...

Forced labor and related issues are being adamantly enforced by US Customs & Border Protection at this time. It has resulted in many seizures, detentions and Withhold Release Orders and has caused ...

The Trump administration since June has ramped up detentions of electronics, reportedly including components for solar panels, over possible links to forced labor in China, according to data from the ...