Kalbinur Gheni hasn’t seen her sister in person for more than six years. Her sister Renagul disappeared into the Chinese Communist Party’s vast political reeducation camps, which imprison an estimated ...

(A recent study by ProPublica and the Urban Institute found that 56 percent of older workers suffer at least one layoff or other type of involuntary job separation between turning 50 and retirement.

A girl works at a brick kiln at Liuwu Village in Yuncheng in China’s Shanxi province in this June 15, 2007 file photo. Credit: AP Photo/Color China Photo, FIle Subscribe for ads-free reading In China, ...

Dr Siobhan Weare works at Lancaster University Law School. The issue of men being forced to have sex with women isn’t one that receives much, if any, attention. These crimes, also known as ...

Modern slavery is a growing challenge thanks to a mix of armed conflict, climate change and the global pandemic, a new UN report says. International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates suggest that 50 ...

She was never verbally or physically threatened or restrained. But at age 19, Nina Van Harn felt like she couldn’t say no when she was expected to marry a man chosen by her family. And she is not ...

Rubie Marie, from the West Midlands, was 15 when she was forced to marry a man who was twice her age Survivors of forced marriage fear cases will remain underground, despite a new minimum-age law ...

As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, ...

Alexandra Minna Stern receives funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Humane Genome Research Institute for portions of this research project. In August 1964, the North Carolina ...