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Jamaica’s legal approach: Were forced transportation & African enslavement lawful under English law?

Ghana brings reparations for transatlantic slave trade a step further

Africa
Perspective

French slavery law repealed: 'Now we can start talking about reparations,' historian says

France

France votes unanimously to abolish Code Noir, a colonial-era slavery law

France

Pope Leo XIV calls for 'robust' regulation of AI in sweeping manifesto

Europe

Macron backs symbolic repeal of France's slavery laws, warns against 'false promises' on reparations

France

King Charles confronts Britain's transatlantic slave trade past in visit to Bermuda

Americas

'Haitian solutions for Haitian problems: Every international intervention in Haiti has failed'

Haiti

Pope Leo XIV recalls 'great suffering' at historic slave trade shrine in Angola

Africa

'Gravest crime against humanity: Brazil still suffers from effects of slavery'

Americas
Middle East Matters

'Justice necessary': Yazidi survivors deliver harrowing genocide testimony amid int'l indifference

Middle East

'Justice necessary': Yazidi survivors deliver harrowing genocide testimony amid int'l indifference

Middle East
Eye on Africa

UN names African slave trade 'gravest crime against humanity'

Africa

UN designates slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’ despite US opposition

Africa

Brutal Duvalier regime to Haiti in disarray: 'Democracy Spring' derailed by coups, militias, gangs

Americas
arts24

French film show: 'Furcy' revisits dark chapter of slavery in France

Culture
Press Review

Colombia's sex-cam models are abused 'slaves', investigation shows

Americas
Tête à tête

'Come back to the motherland' in Africa, Spike Lee tells African Americans

Americas

Trump renews attacks on Smithsonian over focus on 'how bad slavery was'

Americas

French court jails three for treating champagne workers 'like slaves'

France
arts24

Music show: Laura Prince retraces her African roots on 'Adjoko'

Culture
Perspective

US historian Ana Lucia Araujo on reparations for slavery and slave trade

'A step forward': France recognises historic injustice against Haiti, 'will Americans do the same'?

Americas

'Two hundred years on, 'the legacy of colonialism' remains firmly intact in Haiti and across Africa

Americas

Haiti’s independence ransom: Macron offers ‘truth’, Haitians want reparations

Long read
Americas

'Haiti a stateless society controlled by gangs: UNSC, int'l community failed to act on this tragedy'

Americas

Slaveowners obtained redress centuries ago, justice eludes former colonies and descendants of slaves

Analysis
Americas

Mediterranean migration: Italy and Libya's murky migrant deals

Europe

French court orders city of Biarritz to rename 'La Négresse' neighbourhood

France

Sexual violence in war-torn Sudan on 'staggering' scale, UN probe finds

Africa

Trump ally refuses to leave governor's race after 'Black Nazi' comments emerge on porn site

Americas

'In due course, Ethiopia will be a powerful and prosperous country and remain a leader of Africa'

Revisited

East Africa's Swahili coast grapples with legacy of slave trade

Africa
Focus

Brazilians retrace their African roots using DNA tests

Americas
Across Africa

Zanzibar commemorates abolition of slavery for first time

Africa

Zanzibar commemorates abolition of slavery for first time

Africa
A week in France

Arrival of flame in Marseille lights up France's Olympic spirit

France commemorates slavery abolition in a day to honor victims of slave trade

France

France commemorates the formal recognition of slavery as a crime against humanity

France

France: Prime Minister Gabriel Attal leads ceremony to honor victims of slave trade

France
arts24

From Victorian London to a Jamaica slave plantation: Literary star Zadie Smith on her new novel

Culture

France charges ex-wife of top IS group official with crimes against humanity

Europe

French activists urge Biarritz district to drop 'racist' name

France
Truth or Fake

A female slave market in Ethiopia? No, this is a Senegalese cultural event

Africa

Indonesian maid's torture highlights lack of legal protections

Indonesia
Asia / Pacific

African and Caribbean stakeholders call for slavery reparations at Barbados meeting

Americas

Dutch King formally apologises for Netherlands' historic role in slavery

Europe
Press Review

Juneteenth: The US's 'second independence day'

The 51%

Ending modern slavery: How do we eradicate it?

REPLAY: Macron marks 175th anniversary of abolition of slavery in France

Replay

Macron marks 175th anniversary of abolition of slavery in France

France

Brazil enshrines civic equality with 30% racial quota in top state jobs

Brazil

War crimes in Libya: UN calls for urgent end to human rights violation

Libya
Africa

'Biden admin has a lot of work to do to get US corporate world to engage more in African continent'

Europe Rendezvous

Europe comes to the aid of islands and mountains (part 2)

Europe

UK vows to deport foreign criminals under ‘modern slavery’ overhaul

Europe
The Debate

The shadow workers of Qatar: Is World Cup host 'sportswashing' its reputation?

Sport

EU proposes forced labour ban: Move echoes US ban over alleged Uyghurs abuse

Business

European Commission proposes new rules to ban forced labour products

Business

European Commission proposes new rules to ban forced labour products

Spanish lawmakers vote on whether to draw up laws to abolish prostitution

Spain

Spain to draw up laws to abolish prostitution

Spain

Belgian king makes historic visit in DR Congo

Africa

Does 'the root of Haiti's misery' date back to France's 19th-century extortion? (Part 2)

Does 'the root of Haiti's misery' date back to France's 19th-century extortion? (Part 1)

Eye on Africa

France holds annual ceremony to mark abolition of slavery

Africa

ANALYSIS: Is France doing enough to commemorate the victims of slave trade ?

France

France commemorates the abolition of slavery

Perspective

France's national day of the abolition of slavery: 'No reparation has been done'

France

In a circular economy, 'fashion and sustainability are not an oxymoron'

Harvard sets up $100 million fund to tackle its historic ties to slavery

Americas

Qatar 2022: FIFA faces new attack over human rights in World Cup host Qatar

Qatar 2022