Slavery

Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is forbidden to quit their service for another person and is treated as property. Historically, enslavement was a typical outcome of military defeat, and a reason to join or support an army. Individuals, then, usually became slaves due to force, coercion of one sort or another, although there was voluntary slavery to pay a debt or obtain money for some purpose. In chattel slavery, the enslaved person is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner. In economics, the term de facto slavery …

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Amnesty International · 17 October 2024 English

International organizations demand due process guarantees for the release of journalist José Rubén Zamora.

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Amnesty International · 16 October 2024 English

Ahead of the COP16 Biodiversity summit, which runs from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “At the last meeting of the …

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Amnesty International · 16 October 2024 English

The French authorities must immediately stop the use of a discriminatory risk-scoring algorithm used by the French Social Security Agency’s National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF), which is used to detect …

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PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 16 October 2024 English

Severe floods and landslides in Eastern Northeast Brazil in May 2022 led to severe impacts with human losses and material damage. These disasters were a direct consequence of extremely heavy …

descendant communities in Brazil: has the legacy of slavery truly ended? Publ. Health Nutr. 20 (8), 1513–1522


Governance Institute of Australia · 16 October 2024 English

• Board level sentiment domestically and globally – how is Australia is tracking? • The regulatory landscape – domestic and international developments. [...] • Communicating ESG principles, targets and ambitions …

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IMF: International Monetary Fund · 16 October 2024 English

This paper investigates public perceptions and support for policies aimed at integrating immigrant workers into domestic labor markets. Through large-scale surveys involving 6,300 respondents from Canada, Italy, and the United …

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Amnesty International · 16 October 2024 English

Pakistan’s second review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the country is a state party, is scheduled for this week on 17 and 18 …

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TCF: The Century Foundation · 16 October 2024 English

More than two years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization1 overturned the federal right to abortion, ignoring the legal precedent set …

resulted in the racialization of reproductive slavery, which combines White supremacy, sexual exploitation coercion continued beyond the institution of chattel slavery into the eugenics movement, which asserted that terminology to define its depths—reproductive slavery. Reproductive slavery is not just a relic of time for history society. From forced reproduction during chattel slavery to forced sterilization in recent years, white reproduction. Righting the injustice of reproductive slavery and achieving reproductive freedom demands expanded


Amnesty International · 16 October 2024 English

Reacting to the Polish government’s new migration strategy which cites the threat of Russia and Belarus using migration to ‘destabilize the country’ and proposes temporary suspension of the right to …

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RAND Corporation · 16 October 2024 English

Measuring the prevalence of trafficking may have utility for individuals who are assessing the level of need and resources necessary to locate and support suspected or identified victims. This report …

York University Terry Fitzpatrick Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Michael Joseph International Justice Durgana, Davina P., and Paul L. Zador, “Fighting Slavery Through Statistics: A Discussion of Five Promising


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