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MPs could axe clause in bill banning forced labour in GB Energy supply chain

Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturned

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2025

Cambridge University in row over claims Stephen Hawking benefited from slavery-linked funds

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade

Evening Standard · Mar 23, 2025

Flawed UK visa scheme led to ‘horrific’ care worker abuse, says watchdog

Anti-slavery commissioner says scheme to plug staffing gaps post-Brexit was a ‘blunt instrument’ that enabled exploitation of the vulnerable

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025

Trump's move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man's heroics at 18 in World War I

Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2025

Slavery victim was forced to sleep beside dogs and beaten to death, court told

The body of 55-year-old Dimitrios Tsavdaris was found in a foetal position in a flat in Hackney, north London.

Evening Standard · Mar 6, 2025

Record high modern slavery referrals ‘shows shocking scale’ of issue in UK

Greater London was the area where exploitation in the UK was most commonly said to have occurred

Evening Standard · Mar 6, 2025

‘I don’t want my sons in fatigues’ – Jess Phillips defends aid cuts

The minister was asked about the Government’s decision to cut overseas aid to fund a boost to defence spending.

The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2025

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

The Guardian - US · Mar 4, 2025

Brooklyn’s fraught history with slavery is examined in a new exhibit

With 10 archival files, Trace/s upends simplistic narratives about New York’s history with enslavement

The Guardian - US · Mar 3, 2025

‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025