Legal scholar Daniel Ogunniyi, who has done research in this field, speaks about the intersection of climate change and modern slavery in Africa. What is modern slavery and how serious is it in ...

The last country to abolish slavery was the African state of Mauritania ... than ever and can generate high economic returns. Modern slavery is very cheap, and Kevin Bales has argued that this ...

Mauritius, Lesotho and Botswana have the lowest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa. Research suggests that of these, some 3.8 million people toil in forced labour in Africa.

Forced marriage, forced begging and descent-based slavery, which are common in many African countries, may also fit modern slavery. Descent-based slavery refers to situations in which people are ...

The African people who were forced into this ... as this is when the UK Modern Slavery Act came into action. This new law was created because although the legal and open business of transatlantic ...

Modern slavery occurs in almost every country in ... (15.1 million), followed by Europe and Central Asia (4.1 million), Africa (3.8 million), the Americas (3.6 million) and the Arab States ...

In the UK, modern slavery offences are primarily governed by the Modern Slavery Act 2015 ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and ...

The commission held meetings with representatives of 17 African nations and 27 civil ... girls in the most vulnerable situations, said modern slavery and human trafficking of girls was hidden ...

Justice Mugambe, 49, also a High Court judge in Uganda, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a ...

This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes WBD’s group slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ended 31 December 2022.

The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts say requires the government ...