Slavery

Greek lawmakers were presented with evidence that modern-day slavery is being practiced in the country today and were urged by experts to accelerate action to investigate the phenomenon during the presentation of a report earlier this week to a parliamentary committee on human rights and exploitation.

Greek lawmakers on April 17voted through a resolution demanding the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin.

The U.S. has made the "only known surviving slave narrative written in Arabic" in the country available on the internet.

Women who have been made to work as domestic maids for the rich in their childhood years have spoken of this “slavery” system, which still continues in a neighborhood of the southern province of Hatay’s Kırıkhan district.

Girls are being trafficked into domestic servitude or sex slavery after their parents illegally marry them off, said officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra on May 1.

About 100 migrant workers gathered outside a police station to protest against the arrest of their bosses.

Three men were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of modern slavery offences at Bosahan farm near Helston in Cornwall.

The protesters said they were also angry they had been portrayed as modern slaves after police raided the farm.

The African Union has upped its goal to repatriate stranded migrants from Libya, saying in a statement that it aims to bring 20,000 Africans home in the next six weeks.

Pressure has grown on the continental body and individual African states to get their citizens out of Libya after CNN broadcast a report showing black Africans being sold as slaves in the north African country.

Leaders at an EU-Africa summit called Nov. 30 for the immediate evacuation of nearly 4,000 distressed African migrants in Libya under a new drive to fight slave traders and traffickers.

40.3 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. This is a new global study by the United Nations International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation, published today.

Romania and Bulgaria are among the European Union countries most vulnerable to modern slavery, a new report has warned.

The Modern Slavery Index 2017, released by the UK-based Verisk Maplecroft risk analysis consultancy, puts Romania and Bulgaria among the top five countries in the European Union at highest risk of modern slavery together with Greece, Italy and Cyprus.