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Strategic prosecutions to end modern-day slavery by changing company, government policies: Experts

Strategic litigation was successfully used to help end the British slave trade 250 years ago.

Dec 15, 2015

Shaker Aamer: Guantanamo prisoner says UK police witnessed his torture

The last British resident to be held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has told media that British security officers witnessed him being tortured by American soldiers at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

Dec 14, 2015

Mosques in US step up security in the wake of shrill anti-Muslim rhetoric

Muslims fear an anti-Islamic backlash at mosques and community centers.

Dec 14, 2015

Hundreds homeless, baby dead as hutments are razed in Delhi

A railway official said the hutments were built illegally on railway land.

Dec 13, 2015

90 killed in worst-ever outbreak of clashes in Burundi's capital Bujumbura

Officials spent Saturday collecting bullet-riddled bodies from city streets.

Dec 13, 2015

10 killed in bomb blast in Pakistan's Tribal Areas region

On Saturday, at least one soldier was killed and four others injured when a bomb exploded at a paramilitary checkpoint in southwest Pakistan.

Dec 13, 2015

Ethiopia: Oromo community protest in London over ethnic cleansing

Dozens of members of the Oromo community have protested outside of parliament against the Ethiopian governments plan to expand Addis Ababa

Dec 10, 2015

President Obama marks 150th anniversary of amendment ending slavery

President Barack Obama joined Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill on 9 December, to mark the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment which ended slavery.

Dec 10, 2015