Brazil’s labour ministry on Tuesday added Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD to a registry of employers found to have subjected workers to conditions analogous to slavery, limiting access to state ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. These two sides of the argument over how we remember Washington are the inspiration ...

Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

Kenneth B Ati-John and Ndine Wa‑Chiuta respond to an article by Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama The president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, is right to argue that recognising the transatlantic ...

The resolution was adopted by 123 votes to three, with 52 abstentions The United Nations General Assembly this week voted to designate the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Nations has condemned the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of people from Africa as the worst atrocity in human ...

The US and Israel were among a handful of countries to vote against a UN resolution condemning slavery as the "gravest" crime against humanity and calling for reparations. The resolution, brought by ...

On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution from Ghana declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. In total, 123 countries voted in ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

The UN General Assembly has passed the resolution on transatlantic slavery despite opposition from the US and European countries. The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution recognizing the ...

The UN has adopted a historic resolution declaring slavery "a grave human rights violation." DW unpacks what the measure means to Ghana, which put it forward, and the United States, among the three ...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" despite opposition by the United States and some European countries. In a ...