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Area Briefs: Slavery North to host book launch for ‘Joe the Pressman’
16 Feb 2026 21:28 GMT
… Pressman’
AMHERST — The Slavery North Initiative at UMass Amherst … Nelson, founding director of Slavery North and provost professor … More information about the Slavery North Initiative can be … at Amherst, the Sunderland Human Rights Committee and Friends, and …
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Human Rights Watch Finally Draws the Line
11 Feb 2026 19:32 GMT
… earth would stand accused of slavery, colonialism, and crimes … embarrassing if given a Human Rights Watch imprimatur.”
This refusal … . In this case, Human Rights Watch acted properly in … Human Rights Haggadah, and he uses short fiction to explore human rights …
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Modern Slavery: Rising Expectations And Steady reform across Australia, APAC and beyond
13 Feb 2026 21:26 GMT
… identify and address modern slavery risks (and human rights risks more generally) are … modern slavery is part of a broader global trend toward comprehensive human rights … the government drafting a mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law …
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Warning Australia is a dumping ground for slave-made goods
16 Feb 2026 20:28 GMT
… Australian companies to take slavery in their supply chains … -risk areas for modern slavery.'"
Ansell … company is committed to upholding human rights. (Supplied: Port Adelaide Plaza … she said.
Loading...The anti-slavery commissioner, Mr Evans, also …
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Ethnic Media Must Reclaim Community Narratives From Revisions That Ignore, Distort, Or Erase The Truth
16 Feb 2026 20:51 GMT
… Service to remove references to slavery and LGBTQ+ history from its … Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge referencing slavery, Japanese American incarceration sites, and … Conference on Civil Rights and Human Rights and former President and CEO …
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Denver judge rules Department of Corrections violates state constitution
16 Feb 2026 19:38 GMT
… of the state constitution prohibited slavery or involuntary servitude, "except … have endured. Voters overwhelmingly abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons … dignity, fairness, and respect for human rights."
Wallace ordered CDOC to …
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Vigil Mass for St. Josephine Bakhita highlights call to confront modern slavery
13 Feb 2026 07:24 GMT
… saint of victims of slavery and human trafficking.
Quoting … victim.
Citing the Global Slavery Index, she said an … George’s County Office of Human Rights, outlined local resources, including … patron saint of victims of slavery and human trafficking. (Catholic …
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Four in 10 migrants will challenge 'one in, one out' deportation claiming to be slavery victims
12 Feb 2026 10:38 GMT
… deportation policy claiming to be slavery victims.
Of those subject … to have their modern slavery claim reconsidered whilst they … by utilising Britain’s modern slavery laws.
Now, appeals … as the European Convention on Human Rights.
Despite Ms Mahmood changing …
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Four in 10 migrants will challenge Labour deportation plans with slavery claims
11 Feb 2026 21:29 GMT
… to have their modern slavery claims reconsidered while they … including the European Convention on Human Rights.
Shabana Mahmood has admitted … said: “Last-minute modern slavery claims must never be used … one bit of modern slavery regulations, another set come …
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Battle to save the crumbling palace of General Gordon’s Last Stand
16 Feb 2026 17:08 GMT
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‘Violence, rape, sexual slavery, abduction’
Both sides in … on media, journalists and human rights defenders. Both obstructed … , of “large-scale human rights and international humanitarian law … based violence, rape, sexual slavery, abduction, and recruitment …