HASTINGS -- LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta's gay district, looking to exchange sex acts for a hot h...
Posted 03.07.2012
A wealthy upstate New York woman is being accused of breaking immigration laws by keeping an illegal immigrant as her servant and forcing her to work ...
Rani Hong | Posted 03.13.2012
Every day, in every nation on the planet, children are sold and bonded into slavery. Thousands of children. I know, I was one of them.
Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.21.2011
While many of us consider slavery to be a thing of the past, Oakland-based startup Slavery Footprint urges us to think again. The organization aims...
Henry Freeman | Posted 02.05.2012
Could it really be true that a being so intelligent like man, still hasn't evolved to a level where slavery and abuse of others are just memories of a cruel past? Do a little searching and some real disgust starts to develop.
Bibiana Ferraiuoli Suarez | Posted 02.01.2012
They were going to be sold for prostitution in 2002. But it never happened. Advocates of an invisible crime, among them Ricky Martin, rescued them at the dawn of day.
Dr. David Liepert | Posted 01.16.2012
The International Muslim Abolitionist Movement believes that true compliance to Muhammad's example demands that slavery in all its evil forms must come to an end, and Muslims must make that happen today.
Nita Belles | Posted 06.29.2011
If you believe that human trafficking -- modern-day slavery -- primarily takes place in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, you're like most people. But there are more slaves in the U.S. today than at any time in history.
Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 08.26.2011
On Monday, government officials, law enforcement agents, advocates, and journalists head to the Department of State to discuss slavery. They will not receive a history lesson. They will discuss a problem that still affects at least 12.3 million people worldwide.
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster | Posted 07.26.2011
Fighting slavery cuts across political lines. It represents a moral consensus: Slavery is wrong, and we should not benefit from unpaid labor.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 06.19.2011
A young woman, wide eyes accentuated by smeared mascara and dirt, is crouched on a cement basement floor, her wrists handcuffed to the cracked wall. W...
Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011
As I walked through the Cape Coast Castle, I realized that the slavery of centuries ago is not very different from modern day slavery -- the gross violation of human rights and the apathy of the masses towards their plight.
John Bowe | Posted 05.25.2011
As the immigration debate rears its painful, ugly head once more, it is my hope that the facts become known, and that America's abusive guest worker programs aren't seized upon as an optimal solution.
Marc Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. State Department this month published a report finding that more than 12 million people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" -- trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or prostitution.
Posted 05.25.2011
On a recent trip to Ghana, Jason Mraz traveled with international nonprofit Free the Slaves, exploring modern slavery and trafficking in African commu...
Posted 05.25.2011
Working alongside the Somaly Mam Foundation, Mayor Bloomberg has launched the Let's Call An End To Human Trafficking campaign, aimed at ending human t...
TIME | E. Benjamin Skinner | Posted 05.25.2011
As Hillary Clinton pays her first visit to Pakistan as Secretary of State, an unfolding hostage crisis will test the Obama Administration's rhetoric o...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Nomin wanted to go to college. Three years ago, unable to afford tuition in the Mongolian capital, the native of remote Zavkh...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
Yasmina was 12 years old when an aunt and uncle brought her to France from Mali to be a live-in nanny to their children. Once she was settled in a ...
Amb. Swanee Hunt and Lina Sidrys Nealon | Posted 05.25.2011
Slavery is more prevalent today than at any point in history. Free the Slaves estimates that 27 million people are trapped in debt bondage, domestic servitude, hard labor, or the sex trade.
Tampa Bay Times | Posted 05.13.2012