Modern Slavery
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How CNN reported on ‘child slaves’ who were not really enslaved
Despite what a recent CNN documentary claims, there is no pervasive child slavery problem in Ghana’s Lake Volta region
Fact check: How many people are enslaved in the world today?
Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the US, across the globe or just in certain industries
This is what life is like in the world’s last country to ban slavery
Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.
Eritrea’s new normal: The tragedy and the struggle for change
Eritreans have become desensitised; the slavery in Libya is “the new normal”
Slavery dominates discussion at AU-EU Summit
Modern-day slave markets in Libya were on the lips of African and European leaders at the opening of the summit in Abidjan
Evacuate migrants enslaved in Libya, urges France’s Macron
Bound for the EU-Africa summit, President Macron told Burkina Faso students that migrant trafficking was a "crime against humanity."
A powerful weapon in the fight against modern slavery
The Global Slavery Index will help shape national and global efforts to root out modern slavery in Africa and across the world, writes Nick Grono.