Sentences with phrase «international slave trade»

Recent posts cover abortion law in Taiwan, the international slave trade and the arrest of an Ethiopian human rights lawyer.

But with their love of family, they must have opposed the horror of the international slave trade... NO?

... Britain intervened directly to stop the international slave trade... set new standards in healthcare... stood against a Nazi tyranny... forg [ed] the post-war international consensus which... ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe... [and] helped give birth to a peaceful resolution of the conflict [in Northern Ireland]... Your Government and people are the shapers of ideas that still have an impact far beyond the British Isles...

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The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

The former deputy prime minister joined culture minister Margaret Hodge for the official opening of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

Ejiofor, for his part, addressed the topic in an interview with Indiewire, pointing out that the slave trade was an international phenomenon: «You can look at a very specific thing — it was very specifically an American story, but it has global elements,» he said.

You might think you know about the slave trade, but you don't understand it, it's daily rhythms and international consequences until you read this book.

(Of course he would eventually find Livingstone, reach international fame, then return to Africa to help form the Congo Free State, which, in turn, led to one of the world's largest slave trade in history.

The museum is contained within the forbidding 19th - century warehouses of the Albert Dock, which speaks more lucidly than any other British setting of the history of the slave trade, documented in detail at the International Slavery Museum nearby.