Slavery

New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, best known for the 1619 Project, which frames slavery as one of the core elements of the history of the United States, addressed the UN General Assembly during a commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade on Tuesday. She...

Approximately 80 million children from 5 to 7 years old are subjected to modern-day slavery today, according to UNICEF and ILO’s findings from June. Moreover, experts claim that one in every 130 women and girls are victims of forced labor,...

Today being Columbus Day, I would like to express my personal opinion on this commemoration. Despite the false and malignant attributes many people attach to Christopher Columbus today--many even contemptuously distancing themselves from him-- only Italian Americans still admire and...

In Italiano It’s almost like a Pirandello play: loves and hatreds, admiration and disdain for a similar situation, but seen from different points of view, simply to remind us that absolute truth does not exist. And this very sick America,...

In the UN "2016 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons", 71 percent of all victims of human trafficking are women and girls and one third are children. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Security Council stated: “If conflict gives oxygen...

In questa penosa classifica sulla schiavitù compilata dalla Fondazione Free Walk, l'Italia occupa il 44esimo posto (seconda nell'UE, dopo la Polonia). Gli USA al 52esimo. Con l'India e Corea del Nord, anche Cina, Bangladesh, Pakistan tra i peggiori. Con tanti...

The workshop report "Fighting Human Trafficking in Conflict: 10 Ideas for Action by the United Nations Security Council", was presented by the UK and Liechtenstein missions in partnership with Thomson Reuters, United Nations University and the Grace Farms Foundation