Until the industry pays a fair price and governments enforce real accountability, every bar of chocolate remains an unpaid ...

While marking the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, new UN and rights-groups findings show modern slavery ...

Over 150 years after slaves were freed in the United States, four states voted Tuesday to remove language that permits forced prison labor from their state constitutions. While the 13th Amendment ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday that strengthens punishments for landowners and others who force people into slave-like working conditions, in which ...

A federal labor judge in Brazil ordered the government to add a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS to a so-called "dirty list" of ...

Explore Tony’s Chocolonely’s bid to fight abuse in the cocoa supply chain and consider the dilemmas at the end ...

California and Nevada voters face landmark decisions on constitutional amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons, joining a growing movement to ...

Nearly three-fourths of Gen Z consumers are willing to pay more for products that are environmentally sustainable, according to a poll released in 2020. But would Gen Z and the rest of us be willing ...

But those 2,500 12-megawatt 800-foot-tall turbines would provide barely enough electricity to power New York state on a hot summer day, if the wind is blowing, and before its Net Zero mandates kick in ...

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...

The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.