Shining a light on sexually exploited women and girls forced into crime
© UNICEF/NooraniBy UN News25 January 2021UN human rights experts are warning of a direct link between the pandemic, socio-economic vulnerability ...
Tag: Slavery
Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment
By Katie McQue, THE WASHINGTON POSTJan. 24, 2021DUBAI — Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport in a locked ...
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Uprooted Millions
By Tyler Durden, ZERO HEDGE Fri, 06/26/2020 400 years ago, in August 1619, the first ship with enslaved Africans destined for ...
Wikipedia’s Article of the Day June 15, 2020: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to HeavenFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSong Flung Up to HeavenThe paperback versionAuthor Maya AngelouCountry United StatesLanguage ...
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
By AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham ...
UGANDA: MODERN-DAY SLAVERY: THE PUBLIC MARKETS SELLING YOUNG GIRLS FOR $14
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Theatre: How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history (PHOTOS)
New play The Whip is one of several new stories bringing attention to the nation’s involvement in the historic slave ...
Hundreds of boys, men freed from torture building in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (Associated Press) — Hundreds of boys and men have been rescued from a building in northern Nigeria where ...
Wikipedia’s Article of the Day September 17, 2019: Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) was an African-American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped in 1849, then returned 13 ...
Today in History – September 9 The Stono Rebellion -LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (photos)
Ariel view of the countryside along the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. Carol M. Highsmith, photographer, May 1, ...
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