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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his remorse over the sexual slavery of Asian women during World War II.

• 29 апреля 2015, 10:48

Hollywood star Ben Affleck says he was "embarrassed" upon learning he had slaveholding ancestors.

• 23 апреля 2015, 14:05

Canada announced the extradition of 20 Hungarians convicted in what authorities described as the largest human trafficking case in Canadian history, for forcing eastern European refugee claimants into slavery.

• 23 июля 2014, 13:26

A Taiwanese woman was on Tuesday jailed for 10 years by a Cambodian court for trafficking hundreds of people to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats off Africa.

• 29 апреля 2014, 13:57

The story of a Karaganda resident Vladimir Galkin, who told that he was kept in slavery for about 12 year on a remote farm, has got a continuation.

• 10 марта 2014, 19:29

A man has been kept in slavery for more than 12 years on a remote farm in Karaganda Oblast.

• 25 февраля 2014, 18:36

Three women held captive in a London house for 30 years were beaten and brainwashed, police said Friday, as Britain struggled to comprehend its worst case of modern-day slavery.

• 23 ноября 2013, 13:34

Three traumatised women have been rescued from a house in London after being held as slaves for at least 30 years with one of them having spent her entire life in servitude, police said Thursday.

• 22 ноября 2013, 12:55

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the "slavery-like" conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian women who work in Hong Kong as domestic staff, accusing authorities of "inexcusable" inaction.

• 21 ноября 2013, 12:55

The attorney general Berik Imashev discussed human trafficking issues with the Charge d'affaires of the United States, John Ordway.

• 02 ноября 2013, 00:18

An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery.

• 18 октября 2013, 10:00

As many as 10.5 million children worldwide work as domestic servants, in what can be hazardous and even slave-like conditions.

• 13 июня 2013, 10:26

President Dilma Rousseff wants to introduce public service quotas for black Brazilians as a way to repay a historic debt for centuries of slavery and discrimination.

• 17 октября 2012, 10:23