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Nigerian politician guilty of organ-harvesting plot in landmark UK case

A wealthy Nigerian senator, his wife and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking under the UK Modern Slavery Act, in a landmark case.

The Week

Nigerian politician, wife, and a doctor guilty of organ trafficking to UK

Four convicted of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney in first verdict of its kind under Modern Slavery Act

The Guardian - UK

Sold into sex slavery at 15 and convicted of killing her rapist, Pieper Lewis faces further sentencing

The teenage victim of trafficking has violated her parole, leading to a further hearing this week. Meanwhile, the man she says trafficked her has still not been charged. Holly Baxter reports

The Independent UK

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Here's what businesses and consumers can do to tackle modern slavery in supply chains

Even though the practice of slavery has been formally abolished, an estimated 49.6 million people are in forced labour globally, a quarter of which are children.

The Conversation

Like it or not, we all bear some responsibility for slavery

Letters: When it comes to atoning for the slave trade, we need to acknowledge how much we have benefited, says Prof Sir Roderick Floud. Plus letters from Nic Madge, Morris Gyles, Rex Knight and Kit Jackson

The Guardian - UK

The racist roots of gynecology

Modern gynecology was borne of experimentation of enslaved Black women, historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens explains

Salon

Cambridge’s Trinity College to examine its links to slavery

An academic will spend four years researching benefits the college gained.

The Independent UK

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Cambridge college to create fellowship to examine slavery links

Trinity academic to establish how college benefited from slave trade in move to achieve ‘reconciliation’

The Guardian - UK

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS

The poem discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route.

The Independent UK

Export ban on Coleridge anti-slavery manuscript as British buyer sought

Handwritten poem in Greek from his undergraduate years has recommended sale price of £20,400

The Guardian - UK

BBC journalist quits corporation to join fight for Caribbean slavery reparations

BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has quit her job to join the Caribbean's fight for slavery reparations a month after her family announced a £100,000 payment in return for their slave-owning past

Daily Mirror

Recommendations of Edinburgh slavery review to progress with nomination of chair

EDINBURGH City Council has nominated a chair to implement the recommendations of the city’s review into its history of slavery and colonialism.

The National (Scotland)

Laura Trevelyan quits BBC to campaign for reparative justice for Caribbean

Decision comes after Trevelyan family apologises for ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved African people

The Guardian - UK

A fairer way to pay slavery reparations

Letter: John Cookson says only those whose ancestors gained from slavery should be responsible for reparations

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The overlooked reason reparations make sense in California and elsewhere

Californians are weighing in publicly on the idea of reparations to Black Americans, with the state’s Reparations Task Force set to report their recommendations by July 1. This initiative builds on smaller-scale efforts, such as in my hometown of Evanston, Illinois, which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to…

Chicago Sun-Times

San Francisco board open to reparations with $5 million payouts

A proposal under consideration would give $5 million to every eligible Black adult, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes for $1 a family.

The Guardian - US

San Francisco backs reparations plans, including $5m to eligible Black adults

Proposals also include financing debt forgiveness, guaranteed annual incomes for families and homes in the city for $1

Daily Mirror

Suella Braverman's policies branded 'cruel and heartless' by ex-Home Office adviser

The comments from Nimco Ali came as the Government's Illegal Migration Bill passed the first parliamentary hurdle - but former PM Theresa May suggested victims of modern slavery would be treated as 'collateral damage'

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The Guardian - UK

Calls to close loophole that puts UK domestic workers at risk of ‘slavery’

Government yet to overhaul family worker exemption, which permits live-in staff to be paid less than national minimum wage

Manchester Evening News

Controversial illegal migration bill passes first Commons test amid calls for changes

The proposals aim to stop people claiming asylum in the UK if they arrive through unauthorised means

The Guardian - UK

Catalonia confronts past racism after slave trade documentary

Programme highlights fact that much of 19th-century wealth was built on the back of transatlantic practice

The Independent UK

What is the UK goverment’s plan to tackle small boats all about and how big is the asylum problem?

Government says Illegal Migration Bill will ‘stop the boats’ but critics warn it won’t work

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Eddie Lampkin, and people who compare NFL combine to slavery, need a history lesson

FORT WORTH, Texas — This week, Jerry Jones defended the NFL’s combine against comparisons to slavery, TCU center Eddie Lampkin’s mom made allegations that TCU coach Jamie Dixon talks like a racist, and former Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin compared his situation to lynching.

The National (Scotland)

Tory anti-strike bill 'sounds like slavery', Green peer says

THE Tories' proposed anti-strike laws "sound like slavery" as it forces people to work against their will, a Green Party peer has said.

The Guardian - UK

UK anti-slavery post left unfilled by Home Office since April 2022

Role of anti-slavery commissioner vacant at time when cases of suspected trafficking at all-time high

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