The exhibit, with support from the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery, is being staged in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the ...
Newton Kanhema, Deputy Director of the United Nations Information Services (UNIS), Mrs. Cynthia Meru from IOM, and Ngandeu ...
Travel company TUI has apologised after offering Dutch tourists the chance to follow in the footsteps of their “brave ancestors” who enslaved people in the former colony of Suriname.
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The cabinet has received several compensation claims for the impact of slavery since prime minister Mark Rutte apologised for the Dutch role in the slave trade 18 months ago, RTL Nieuws said on Monday ...
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on ...
200 names of the enslaved were block-printed, and titles were written in roundhand calligraphy for the exhibit. “When thinking about this show, about New Haven, and Yale and slavery, and how far ...
The exhibit and documents reflecting Yale’s ties to enslavement were displayed as a part of the Yale Slavery Research Project. The findings of the project were highlighted in a book, “Yale and Slavery ...
Sex Trade to Slavery: A UN Agency Says Criminals Reap $236B a Year in Profits From Forced Labor GENEVA (AP) — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount ...
The Dutch colonised Suriname in the 17th century, establishing a plantation economy driven by African slave labour and producing sugar Credit: Getty Images/Marica van der Meer Anti-racism group ...
Some 85% of the people affected were working in “privately imposed forced labor,” which can include slavery, serfdom, bonded labor, and activities like forms of begging where cash taken in ...
Some 85 percent of the people affected were working in “privately imposed forced labor,” which can include slavery, serfdom, bonded labor, and activities like forms of begging where cash taken ...