A museum in Amsterdam is facing criticism for its decision to stop using the term Golden Age to describe the 17th century, when the Netherlands was a global mercantile, military and artistic superpower.

The largest-ever UK modern slavery ring, which forced more than 400 people to work for a pittance while their criminal masters earned £2 million, has been smashed.

The head of the Workplace Relations Commission has said today that some people are being subjected to slave-like conditions here.

The welfare of 200 workers at a flower farm are being checked after three men were arrested on suspicion of slavery.

Thirteen Polish nationals have been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences after allegedly exploiting eastern European workers.

A new TG4 documentary tells of Tom Molineaux, who boxed his way to freedom from slavery, before he died destitute in Ireland, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

US president Donald Trump dug in defiantly in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy.

A British woman has told how she was 'kidnapped' as a teenager and 'held captive for 13 years by a sadistic paedophile who sold the babies she had from him raping her'.

Campaigners revise estimate of trafficking and debt bondage level.

The world’s largest prawn supplier has said it has been working to cut ties with those involved in slavery in ancillary markets in Thailand.

After watching the films Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom and 12 Years a Slave, I’m glad that I’m an Irish Catholic. Our community has never had a secular empire.