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Top UK City firm founders linked to slavery

New research by University College London has uncovered links between British Investment bank Rothschild and City law firm Freshfields and slavery...

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Feature -- interview with the un special rapporteur

In an exclusive interview with The Reporter, Gulnara Shahinian, the UN’s first Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery tells Anti-Slavery’s Kate Willingham the challenges of her new role, her aims while in office and what has shocked her the most during her first year in post...

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voice from the field

In May, Boubacar Messaoud, president of SOS Esclaves received the 2009 Anti-Slavery International award on behalf of his organisation. Here he explains the difficulties he and his organisation face in combating slavery in Mauritania, a country where 600,000 people one fifth of the population remain enslaved...

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