UN panel accuses regional South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes, beheadings
Nairobi, KenyaReuters South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication. Investigators say sexual abuse has been used as a weapon by all sides in South Sudan’s civil […]
CAMEROON: SEPARATIST CONFLICT TRAPS GIRLS IN SEX AND SERVITUDE
A report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation looks at the plight of girls in the midst of Cameroon’s conflict…
North Korean women tell of slavery and gang rape in Chinese cybersex dens
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls – some as young as nine – are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the reclusive state said on Monday. The sexual exploitation of North Koreans generates at least […]
Smugglers prey on migrants seeking better life in Chile, say experts
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of migrants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic seeking a better life in more prosperous Chile are at high risk of labour exploitation and trafficking as migration to the South American nation soars, experts say. At least 100,000 migrants arrived in Chile last year from Haiti, the poorest nation in the […]