Under federal law, slavery is defined, in part, by the use of coercion, torture, starvation, imprisonment, threats, and psychological abuse.

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In fact, Mauritania passed a law criminalizing slavery in 2007.

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This law encourages discrimination against women, accepts slavery, and devalues the life of non-Muslims.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The ITUC's Sharan Burrow said that what she called loopholes in the Qatari labour law created "conditions of 21st century slavery".

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In its 2006 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court noted the questionable tactics attorney Stanley Rosenblatt used to get those findings, such as repeatedly telling the inner-city Miami jury to think about how the cigarette industry divided society into groups and tried to exploit them, and making references to slavery and the unfair treatment of blacks under the law.

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Taubira, from French Guinea, has served as French deputy in the Assembly since 1993, during which time she proposed a law that recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity.

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Only in cases involving jus cogens the most fundamental principles of international law, such as the ban on torture or slavery does this rule not apply.

ECONOMIST: UN law

Few nations have made the journey the U.S. has, moving from black slavery to a black president, from Jim Crow to equality before the law, and from widespread social acceptance of racism to near universal condemnation.

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AD, Ulpian was expounding Roman law as a system based on the Stoic idea that we are all born free and equal, that slavery is against nature, and that all people, including slaves, possess a dignity that can be vindicated in legal proceedings.

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