If the United Nations recognizes surrogacy as slavery, it could put pressure on the United States to outlaw it.

A Jamaican delegation brought a landmark slavery reparations petition to Britain-but the monarch was away in Scotland when it ...

New Jersey lawmakers are pushing a bill that says the state isn't doing enough to teach students about slavery and possible ...

A delegation from Jamaica has filed a petition with the UK over the enslavement of Africans in the Caribbean country, Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports The Jamaican government has presented ...

The issue is due to be raised at the Commonwealth summit hosted in Antigua in November, which the King is set to attend.

The Jamaican government on Monday formally ⁠asked ⁠King Charles to seek legal advice on ⁠whether Britain should pay reparations for slavery, with the country's culture minister saying she is ...

Labour's Camilla Belich says it is a matter of "having the will to prioritise what's important to you as a government".

This has gone far enough. The countries coming after us for slavery reparations, mainly Caribbean states but also some in ...

Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as ...

Her argument makes clear that makes clear that any reparations would be paid by all taxpayers—unless (practically impossible and socially divisive distinctions are made between those deemed to have ...

A journalism class opened my eyes to the school's complicated history with slave owners and plantation labor. Now, I want to ...

"Slavery is illegal everywhere." So said the New York Times, repeated at the World Economic Forum, and used as a mantra of advocacy for over 40 years. The truth of this statement has been taken for ...