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May 29, 2025
International
World

Brazil sues China’s BYD over ‘slavery’ conditions on build site

A BYD showroom (file photo: AP) RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labor conditions at a build site, according to legal documents seen by AFP Thursday.The case concerns 220 Chinese workers found last December in conditions “analogous to slavery” […]

May 3, 2025
International
World

UK court jails Ugandan judge over slavery conviction

A senior judge who worked for the United Nations as well as Uganda’s High Court has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison after she was convicted of enslaving a young woman to work as a maid in the United Kingdom.The Oxford Crown Court found that Lydia Mugambe had taken “advantage of […]