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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah stresses that education is the sole path to self-respect and overcoming India's "slavery mindset". (File)

Education key to ending slavery mindset in India: Siddaramaiah at centenary event of Narayana Guru-Mahatma Gandhi dialogue

December 04, 2025 11:03 am

Siddaramaiah said that Narayana Guru, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar emphasised the values of independence, equality and fraternity.

UK won't apologise at Commonwealth summit for role in slave trade: PM Starmer's office

October 19, 2024 11:17 pm

The UK government has made it clear to the BBC that even if historical links to slavery are raised at the summit, there are no plans for a symbolic apology.

Why the Booker Prize’s links to slavery have come under criticism, again

May 02, 2024 11:58 am

The founders of the Booker Group enslaved more than 200 people in Guyana, in the 19th century, and were deeply tied to the oppressive slavery and indentured labour-based economies of the colony.

Sex trade to slavery: A UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits from forced labor

March 19, 2024 7:07 pm

The Asia-Pacific region was home to more than half of those, while Africa, the Americas, and Europe-Central Asia each represented about 13% to 14%.

A portrait of Elihu Yale from artist Enoch Seeman.

Yale apologises for role in slavery: How the slave trade in India helped establish the University

February 22, 2024 9:23 am

One of America's most prestigious universities is named after East India Company official Elihu Yale, who spent over a quarter of a century in India. Among other things, he made a considerable fortune through the slave trade.

King Charles 'backs' research into British monarchy's slavery ties: How Britain, its royalty profited from slave trade

April 08, 2023 4:52 pm

Buckingham Palace has announced that it is collaborating with a study exploring the relationship the British monarchy had with the slave trade. Here is what available historical evidence tells us.

Netherlands PM Rutte apologises for role of Dutch state in slavery

December 19, 2022 10:04 pm

The apology comes amid a wider reconsideration of the country's colonial past, including efforts to return looted art, and its current struggles with racism.

University of Cambridge says it gained from slave trade

September 22, 2022 7:11 pm

The acknowledgement comes as a string of leading institutions - from the Bank of England to the Church of England - have been re-evaluating the central role that slavery had in enriching Britain and how they benefited from its injustices.

French economist Piketty pens brief history of equality

April 15, 2022 7:02 pm

"A Brief History of Equality", published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, is slated for release on April 19. It was first published in French as "Une breve histoire de legalite" last year and has been translated by Steven Rendall.

Jamaica plans to seek reparations from Britain over slavery

July 12, 2021 9:08 pm

Jamaica was a centre of the slave trade, with the Spanish, then the British, forcibly transporting Africans to work on plantations of sugar cane, bananas and other crops that created fortunes for many of their owners.