IRELAND: Horrors of Human Trafficking RevealedStephen Rogers | Irish Examiner
There were 57 alleged victims of human trafficking — including 13 children — reported to Gardaí in 2011. Of those, 37 were victims of sexual exploitation, 13 of labour exploitation, two were victims of both labour and sexual exploitation and five were victims of "uncategorised exploitation". . . . . . |
BAHRAIN: Women Doctors Tell of Assault, Threats and TortureRachael Fulton, Safeworld Senior Correspondent, spoke to two of Bahrain's women medics.
_"Either you cooperate and say whatever we want and we’ll treat you like a human, or you get stubborn and we beat you like a donkey.” . . . . . |
SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Massacre IPS | Jared Ferrie
Three weeks ago, at least 6,000 armed members of the Lou Nuer tribe attacked Pibor county, which is home to the Murle who have launched similar attacks. They destroyed and damaged homes and buildings, including this clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). . . . . . |
Chen Guangcheng - The man who exposed forced sterilizations in ChinaChen Guangcheng is a civil rights activist in China who drew international attention to forced sterilisation and abortions in rural areas.
The men with the poison-filled syringe arrived two days before Li Juan's due date.They pinned her down on a bed in a local clinic, she says, and drove the needle into her abdomen until it entered the 9-month-old fetus. . . . . . |
Hundreds of Laotian women "sold" in China, victims of human traffickingOver the past two years, hundreds of Laotian girls have entered illegally into China, innocent and unsuspecting victims of human trafficking.
Most of them came from the northern provinces of Laos and efforts to save them have proved to be "largely" useless, reports Radio Free Asia (RFA), quoting anonymous government sources in Vientiane who have confirmed the seriousness of the phenomenon. . . . . . |