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France
National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killedFor almost 180 years after France abolished slavery, the Code Noir (Black Code) allowing enslaved…
May 28, 2026
· 1 min read
Pope Leo XIV
Pontiff calls for ‘most rigorous’ ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slaveryPope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial…
May 25, 2026
· 1 min read
Foreign
Pope Leo XIV issued an apology on Monday for the Catholic Church's long delay in condemning slavery, calling it "a wound in Christian memory". The post Pope apologises for Church’s…
May 25, 2026
· 2 min read
Global development
The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparationsThe most revealing thing about…
April 8, 2026
· 1 min read