The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery ... while others have been transformed into new ones. The UN human rights bodies have documented the persistence of old forms of slavery that ...

Members of the AASS argued that abolition could only be achieved by persuading Americans—slaveholders and non-slaveholders alike—that human bondage was against God’s law. Many Garrisonians ...

The first international document against slavery was the 1815 Declaration Relative to the Universal Abolition of the Slave Trade. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that "All ...

“The African continent is advancing towards the abolition of the death penalty ... a clear message that we are committed to upholding human rights and ensuring that our criminal justice system ...

COUNTRIES attending the ongoing 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council have saluted Zimbabwe for successfully abolishing the death penalty.

The SNP fully oppose the abolition of the Human Rights Act. Under the SNP, Scotland is the only part of the UK to have developed a National Action Plan on Human Rights. We believe that the protections ...