Are you sitting on a sofa that has helped destroy the rainforest? Wearing jeans that caused ­silicosis in those producing them? You may well be.

Slavery is not invisible and it is happening everywhere so why, and how, does it persist? A new documentary takes a closer look.

Four men have been charged with slavery offences after British police freed 24 men from a travellers' caravan site in England.

The recent arrest of anti-slavery protesters in Mauritania has highlighted the fact that slavery is not a relic of the past.

A Mauritanian court has sentenced an anti-slavery activist to three months in prison, while eight others accused of "rebellion" were acquitted.

The only place in the world where the East German flag still flies is on the streets of Maputo.

In a quiet moment it's not hard to imagine the despair of slaves who once laboured at Robben Island.

A West African court of justice convicted the state of Niger on Monday for failing to protect a 12-year-old girl from being sold into slavery.

The acrimonious feud between two of Hollywood's best-known film directors reached a new level of name-calling and accusation at the weekend as Spike Lee invoked America's bitter legacy of slavery in response to Clint Eastwood's comments to the Guardian on Friday.