Tag: Slavery
Utrecht and Amersfoort commemorate colonial past and slavery
Slavery past Last year, the national Advisory Board Dialogue Group on Slavery History advised the government, among other things, to recognize the role of the Dutch authority in slavery and…
Prince Charles talks about slavery and the free regime of nations
Leaders of 54 Commonwealth member states have been meeting since Friday, June 24 in Kigali. This summit (CHOGM) is being held at a time when the organization is going through…
the end of slavery commemorated in Olivewood Texas Cemetery
In the United States, the end of slavery became a holiday last year. Juneteenth corresponds to the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Galveston – a port city near…
Jacques Bouthier case: pedophilia, slavery, rape … The suspicions of the investigators on the ex-CEO
Jacques Bouthier, indicted for child sexual abuse and rape, is accused of being at the center of the organization of human trafficking. The ex-CEO of Assu 2000 is sleeping in…
pedophilia, slavery, rape … The suspicions of the investigators on the ex-CEO
Jacques Bouthier, indicted for child sexual abuse and rape, is accused of being at the center of the organization of human trafficking. The ex-CEO of Assu 2000 is sleeping in…
slavery still persists in the country, reports the UN
The fight against slavery is progressing in Mauritania where this practice is treated as a crime against humanity in the Constitution. This is the observation made by the United Nations…
Hear Aimé Césaire for the National Day of Memories of the Slave Trade and Slavery
First poem by Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a return to the native country recounts the French West Indies before the decline of the colonial empire, in 1939. A text marked…
Nancy Huston, from continent to continent, from America to Africa
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston, who now lives in Paris, is the author of numerous novels published by Actes Sud and Leméac, including “Instruments of Darkness” (1996; Goncourt Prize…
China ratifies international conventions on forced labor
China on Wednesday ratified international conventions prohibiting forced labor. This ratification comes as the Chinese regime is accused of using forced labor in its Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang. The standing…
From the land of prawns to the Celtic Sea, Olivette Otele
You have to go as far as Wales to meet her, to the Celtic Sea to let your prejudices die there. And all the way to Bristol to see him…