Tagged with "slavery in mauritania"

Paying for empire: Jamaica bills the British taxpayer

Jamaica and other Caribbean nations are set to sue Britain for £4 trillion ($6.7 trn) in “unpaid wages” for slaves. Right, let's sue Italy for British slaves taken by Julius Caesar. After all, what did the Romans ever do for us?
by Vincent Cooper - 20 February 2014
Modern slavery and the UN's shameful response

Did you know that the UN human rights council appointed the country with the world's worst slavery record as Rapporteur and one of its vice-presidents? Are you really surprised?
by Michael Curtis - 25 October 2013
Exposing the UN's dirty little secrets

A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story
by Daniel Schwammenthal - 24 February 2013

Paying for empire: Jamaica bills the British taxpayer

Modern slavery and the UN's shameful response