International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition by The Ovi Team “Oh the horrors of slavery! - How the thought of it pains my heart! But the truth ought to be told of it; and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate; for few people in England know what slavery is. I have been a slave - I
Mutiny on the Amistad by The Ovi Team July 2nd 1839. Early in the morning, Africans on the Cu
The Link between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking by Marko Kananen On March 8th the world celebrated International Women’s Day. In order to stress the fact that lot of women around the globe live under circumstances that give no reason to celebrate, the United Nations had chosen “women and men united
Reflections On the Topic of Slavery - Part 3 by Alexandra Pereira We know that modern slavery continues around the world, through the exploitation of workers and their lives, sometimes even in the most “civilized” countries. There are a number of ways in which people can be trapped and used in benefi
The Portuguese and Spanish Slave Trade - Part 1 by Ana & Alexandra Pereira IntroductionSlavery is a social-economic system under which a person (the “slave”) is deprived of freedom and compelled to work
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery by Alexandra Pereira “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Slaves: A true story by Thanos Kalamidas Three years ago I bought a book mainly attracted from the title than actually having any idea what the story was about or I had heard about it before. I read the book in two days, actually I couldn’t sleep before I finished it and when I rea