Advocates for abortion abolition expressed disappointment after the committee voted 6-2 against Senate Bill 456, known as the Abolition of Abortion Act.

An earlier act called the abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain on 25 March 1807, which was an act that prohibited participating in the slave trade, but not slavery itself.

So perhaps they should not be unduly surprised that the government of the US has imported 49 Afrikaners and labelled them as “refugees”. The claim is that they are escaping from the persecution of ...

The County Museum's Tom Mayberry talks about the Somerset writer and social reformer's role in the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

The UK Treasury continued to compensate the descendants of slave owners for decades after the abolition of slavery in the empire.

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade.

March 19 (Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for another generation ...

The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-proposed referendum opposing the abolition of the death penalty, with a 54:48 vote. The bill yesterday questioned the legality ...

The bill, registered in the House of Representatives in February 2024, has been passed by the House after 15 months. The State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House has included some new ...