A team of bike riders, all ordinary people, will attempt to cycle 1,800 miles of the Underground Railroad over five weeks to raise awareness about modern day slavery.

The campaign, a program of the International Justice Mission, an anti-slavery organization, will...

Aid workers, peacekeepers, and other local and foreign staff associated with the official international community commit significant levels of sexual violence and abuse against children, with much of the abuse going unreported, said Save the Children UK, in a 2008 report (located below) based on fieldwork visits to...

On June 24, 2009 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case (Geertson Seed Farms v. Monsanto) where plaintiffs, a coalition of organic and conventional alfalfa growers and the Center for Food Safety, sued the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which...

Years ago, when I told a friend that I was researching American slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to write my historical novel, "The Wedding Gift," set in 19th century Alabama before the Civil War, she asked: "Why didn't slaves just run away?" I said that some did and of...

The Conservative bloc and its media allies, including Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, denounced Sonia Sotomayor when President Obama nominated her for the Supreme Court. The Right proclaimed that Sotomayor was going to be a leftist Latina "activist" judge. In all the hoopla over Citizens United v. FEC, the campaign...

There are reports that the earthquake in Haiti created tens of thousands of orphaned children. Some anti-slavery advocates believe that the new orphans will end up as child slaves, compounding an already complex situation in Haiti where, before the quake, there were already an estimated 300,000 children, known as restavecs,...

On January 4, 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation that January 2010 is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, culminating in an annual celebration of National Freedom Day on February 1. The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, noted the president, became effective on January 1 and the 13th Amendment was sent...