Bangladesh vows to speed up efforts to convict human traffickers
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh is accelerating efforts to bring human traffickers to justice, the law minister said on Tuesday, after a special court set up to clear a backlog of cases secured its first conviction. The nation established seven tribunals nationwide in March to deal with thousands of trafficking cases – some of which […]
Paperwork not patrols: South-East Asian policewomen face career obstacles
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Female police officers in South-East Asia are rarely allowed out on patrol and instead given administrative roles that hold back their careers, the United Nations and international police organisation Interpol said last week. Women account for between six to 20 per cent of police officers in the 10-member Association of Southeast […]
South Africans go online to document police brutality
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Strict enforcement of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown by police and the army has placed the spotlight on official brutality, a cause of anger among the majority Black population for decades. Now a coalition of human rights organisations called C19 is seeking to document those abuses, hoping the data gathered will […]
Bolivia declares gender killings a national priority
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Bolivia, which has one of South America’s highest rates of women being killed because of their gender, has declared femicide a national priority and will step up efforts to tackle growing violence, a top government rights official said on Tuesday. Since January authorities have recorded 73 femicides – the killing of […]
US: AS CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS BEGIN, QUESTIONS REMAIN
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…