This could also rekindle scrutiny of a grim history that paints Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East in an unflattering hue. Many young Africans don’t know that the Arab slave trade spanned so ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

Maid slavery • The exposé by the New York Times ... agencies “recruiting Kenyan women for servitude in the Middle East” is, Taabu Tele says, “proof of an evil practice of maid slavery”.

British Abolitionists, familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, had little knowledge about state coercion of the local peasantry because it was a localised institution that existed in the Middle ...

Türk noted a European Union statement in 2023 profoundly regretting the “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the ...

He called on governments to acknowledge the truth and finally honour the trade ... slave trade, located at UN Headquarters in New York. Standing solemnly against the backdrop of the East River ...