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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ECOS: Environmental Coalition on Standards · 13 January 2025 English
13 January 2025 Ursula von der Leyen: Protect people, nature, and democracy in EU regulations We, the undersigned civil society and trade union organisations, urge the European Commission to uphold …
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UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English
The Department, through an ongoing collaboration with the UNPFII Secretariat, has actively promoted the rights of Indigenous Peoples, in line with the priorities of the System-Wide Action Plan on the …
Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery organized an online discussion entitled “Resisting … communities' resistance to European colonialism and slavery by joining self-emancipating maroon communities …
UN: The United Nations · 9 January 2025 English
Adopted without vote, 56th meeting
Amnesty International · 9 January 2025 English
Reacting to the summoning of Alice Nkom, a Cameroonian lawyer and President of the Central African Human Rights Defenders Network (Réseau des défenseurs des droits humains en Afrique centrale – …
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Amnesty International · 9 January 2025 English
Indigenous Peoples and rural communities in the Philippines are being subjected to numerous human rights abuses amid a rapid expansion in the mining of nickel, an essential component of lithium-ion …
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UN: The United Nations · 8 January 2025 English
Adopted, 77th plenary meeting
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Action note2014-03-25 … the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. SLAVERY--ANNIVERSARY (200TH) Date2015 Notes In: Resolutions … International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 Mar.) …
Amnesty International · 8 January 2025 English
Responding to the fatal shooting of Cambodian-French former opposition MP Lim Kimya in Bangkok, Thailand, Amnesty International’s Interim Regional Deputy Director for Research Kate Schuetze said: “The unlawful killing of …
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Amnesty International · 8 January 2025 English
Responding to reports of arbitrary detention and harassment of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers by law enforcement agencies in Islamabad in Pakistan, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South …
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Amnesty International · 8 January 2025 English
Responding to the assault, arrest, summary conviction and nine-month sentencing by a Ugandan military court of Eron Kiiza, lawyer for detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director …
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UN: The United Nations · 7 January 2025
Formats Add to Basket Files Details SymbolE/RES/276(X) TitleInterim report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery. [...] AccessEnglish: E_RES_276(X)-EN - PDF ; Español: E_RES_276(X)-ES - PDF ; Franç ais: E_RES_276(X)-FR … and Social Council (10th sess. : 1950 : Lake Success, N.Y.) 1950 UN. [...] Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery SLAVERY QUESTIONNAIRES …
TitleInterim report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery. AccessEnglish: E_RES_276(X)-EN - PDF ; Español: … Success, N.Y.) 1950 UN. Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery SLAVERY QUESTIONNAIRES …
