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Anti-slavery measure sits in California Senate, disappointing prison reform advocates

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

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Texas education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery

The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state’s public school social studies curriculum this summer.

The Texas Tribune

Ian Law obituary

Other lives: Sociology academic who helped universities to start acknowledging their part in slavery and colonialism

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Activities, workshops and more coming to National Museums Liverpool for Slavery Remembrance Day

Slavery Remembrance Day has been marked on August 23 in Liverpool since 1999

Liverpool Echo

Moreland residents choose Indigenous word to replace council name linked to slavery

Nearly 60 per cent of respondents to a survey in Moreland have chosen Woi-wurrung word Merri-bek as a new council name.

ABC News

Cambridge University changes ‘colony’ name in bid to break ties with slavery

The renowned institution says student digs called “The Colony” does not reflect the values of the college

The Independent UK

‘He bought me like a chicken’: the struggle to end slavery in Niger

Al-Husseina Amadou was just one of thousands of girls in west Africa who are still bought cheaply as a wahaya, or ‘fifth wife’

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Voters in five states will decide in November on removing constitutional language permitting enslavement or servitude as criminal punishments or debt payments

In 2022, voters in five states — Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont — will decide on ballot measures to repeal language from their state constitutions that allows slavery or involuntary servitude for the punishment of a crime, or, in Vermont, for the payment of debts, damages, or fines.

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Goldsmiths to keep slavery statues after local vote for them to stay

Four controversial statues will stay on a university building in south London after locals voted for them to stay.

Evening Standard

Jenice Armstrong: Let’s help this professor get the US to declare racism a public health crisis

PHILADELPHIA — I thought a lot about the legacy of slavery this past Juneteenth.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Luther Burrell claims racism is ‘rife’ in rugby: ‘That’s the environment’

The former England centre opened up about receiving comments about bananas, fried chicken and slavery and being greeted with a racial slur

The Independent UK

Anti-choice right gloats, and dreams big

On social media, far right dunks extensively, promises national abortion ban and "thousand-year White Boy Summer"

Salon

Prince Charles expresses ‘sorrow’ over slavery’s ‘enduring impact’ at Commonwealth meeting in Rwanda

Charles told the gathering he could not “describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many” during slavery.

Evening Standard

Three arrested in east London in probe of ‘gang using forced labour to produce cannabis’

Stock: National Crime Agency HQ sign

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The Independent UK

Prince Charles shares ‘sorrow’ at suffering slavery caused – but no apology

Prince of Wales tells Commonwealth summit in Rwanda he is on a ‘personal journey of discovery’, but the royals still face criticism over historic ties to slavery

The Independent UK

Car wash slave-drivers jailed for years-long reign of terror

Pair’s squalid home described by victim as ‘gate to hell’

Evening Standard

Modern slavery: Couple who enslaved Slovakian men and forced them to work at car wash are jailed

Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska trafficked vulnerable people to the UK, forced them to work long hours in menial jobs in order to pocket their pay

Daily Record

Cruel couple kept ten slaves locked in house of horrors dubbed ‘gate to hell’

Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska have been jailed for a total of 26 years for their roles in the human trafficking operation.

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Manchester Evening News

Inside house of horrors dubbed 'gate to hell' where vile couple kept slaves

Maros Tancos and Joanne Gomulska forced the vulnerable slaves to carry out almost £1million of work for free

The Independent UK

Couple who forced more than 40 vulnerable men into slavery have been jailed

Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska trafficked vulnerable people to the UK, forced them to work long hours in menial jobs in order to pocket their pay.

The Independent UK

Traffickers will escape justice if victims treated like criminals, charity warns

Hope for Justice says people rescued from forced labour often live in fear they will be deported, making it harder to cooperate with police.

Daily Mirror

Twisted couple kept 10 slaves locked in UK house of horrors dubbed 'gate to hell'

Victims of Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska described living with 10 people in a three-bedroom home, sharing a bathroom and sleeping on filthy mattresses, and were locked inside when the couple went out

Bristol Post

Bristol human trafficking case: National Crime Agency reveals how couple were caught

Maros Tancos and his partner Joanna Gomulska frittered money away as the slaves they exploited lived in squalor

Bristol Post

Bristol car wash couple jailed for human trafficking of Slovakian immigrants

"You treated the victims of your conspiracy as if they were cattle"

Zenger

Celebrating Freedom From Slavery, Ignorance And Injustice Central To Juneteenth

This vibrant celebration marks the day that 250,000 enslaved black people in Texas were freed.

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