Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

Persistent modern-day slavery covers a variety of human rights violations and includes the practices of child labor, bonded labor, serfdom, servile marriage, trafficking in persons (especially women ...

Three volunteers experience 24 hours of life as a modern day slave. Delivered to their gang masters, they are stripped of their identities and forced to work. Show more Three volunteers experience ...

Calling it "modern-day slavery" a group of current and former Alabama inmates are suing the state over alleged forced labor.

Kim Jong-un's tyranny has led to untold abuses against North Koreans. It's time for the world to hold him to account. Greg Scarlatoiu on North Korea's use of forced labor to sustain the regime.

Sometimes, we have to wonder whether we’re living in Hong Kong, the bustling hub of commerce and finance, or Hong Kong, the modern day slavery capital, which ranks alongside North Korea and Iran ...

Authorities say workers slept on beds without mattresses, ate dirty food, and had to share one bathroom among 31 people ...

Brazilian authorities rescued 163 workers from slavery-like conditions at a BYD factory construction site in Bahia. The ...

Under Brazilian law, forced labor is defined as a form of modern-day slavery that includes degrading work conditions and long hours that pose a risk to workers’ health or life and violate their ...

An unlikely setback in progressive California has activists working to remove slavery exceptions from state constitutions ...

Lawyers told Insider that these kilns are part of a system of "modern-day slavery." Insider recently ... Although Pakistan abolished forced labor in 1992, the law is not well enforced and experts ...