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In search of a Rohingya digital diaspora: virtual togetherness, collective identities and political mobilisation

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Frequently called the most persecuted minority in the world, the Rohingyas have suffered systematic violence and oppression in Myanmar since the 1970s. Today, the vast majority of the nearly three million Rohingyas are in exile, escaping state-sponsored ...
Anas Ansar, Abu Faisal Md. Khaled
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Memahami Al-Qur’an Kontemporer Antara Teks, Hermeneutika Dan Kontekstualisasi Terhadap Ayat Perbudakan

open access: yesJurnal Ulunnuha, 2020
This article discusses the verses of slavery contained in the Koran, contemporary slavery with classical slavery is very different, slavery in the old form where one human being can be owned by another human being can be said to be extinct but the new ...
Ahmad Husein
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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2017
In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK.
Gary Craig
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The modern slavery wheel as the new theoretical framework

open access: yesCadernos EBAPE.BR, 2023
A few research papers on modern slavery have outlined how this phenomenon flourishes and persists despite institutional pressures against inhumane practices.
RODRIGO MARTINS BAPTISTA   +3 more
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El “afro” de don Fernando Ortiz y los “africanos” de Humboldt. “Afro”, “África”, Afro-Latinidad en la historia, memoria y herencia cultural de la América ibérica y el Caribe

open access: yesHiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien
Este artículo examina la denominación de grandes grupos poblacionales en América, como los antiguos esclavos y sus descendientes. El grupo que hoy define el discurso sobre la esclavitud y sus consecuencias suele ser denominado “afros”.
Michael Zeuske
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Human Trafficking and the UK Modern Slavery Bill

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2015
This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.
Gary Craig
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Slavery and psychiatry [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychiatry, 2003
Raj Persaud ( [2003][1]) begins his review of Thomas Szasz’s book Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by asserting that something false is true: ‘Thomas Szasz became famous for being at the vanguard of the anti-psychiatry movement’.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Sierra Club: Environmental Activism and US Empire, 1892–1900

open access: yesUSAbroad
Formed in 1892, the Sierra Club (SC) is the oldest US environmental organization concerned with the environment within US borders and beyond. Yet, to date, the Club has not received much attention from historians.
Dean Clay
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Elements for the Agent-Based Modeling of Slavery Systems

open access: yesAdvances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2020
This paper introduces formal concepts for the agent-based modeling of slavery systems. The concepts of master-slave economic relationship, slavery-based economic system, slavery-supporting legal system, and slavery-based material agent society are ...
Antõnio C R Costa
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Understanding the co‐occurrence of tree loss and modern slavery to improve efficacy of conservation actions and policies

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2020
Locations where populations are most reliant on forests and their ecosystem services for subsistence and development are also areas where modern slavery persists.
Bethany Jackson   +3 more
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