
WNN Breaking Tensions continue as violence results in death of teenage girl in Cambodia over land grabs (WNN) Kratie, CAMBODIA: Human Rights organization LICADHO – Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights recently condemned the reckless and bloody attack on a Kratie village by soldiers and police on Wednesday, which resulted [...]

WNN Breaking (WNN/UN): UNITED NATIONS, New York, N.Y.: The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the United Nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths. The report, entitled Trends in Maternal Mortality: [...]

WNN Breaking (WNN/ICRC) Kathmandu, NEPAL: Laxmi Devi Khadka has been in the dark about the fate of her husband for over nine years. In 2003, armed people came to her house in Bardia, southern Nepal, and took her husband, saying they wanted to speak to him for a few minutes. He has never been seen [...]

WNN Breaking (WNN/IOM) Guatemala: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has started a series of refresher trainings on the prosecution of human trafficking cases for some 600 Guatemalan judges. The trainings, organized in coordination with the Judicial Branch and the Secretariat against Sexual Violence, Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons of the Vice President’s Office are [...]

Azita Ranjbar - WNN Breaking (WNN/EN) Talas Province, KYRGYZSTAN: Although bride kidnapping is illegal under Article 155 of Kyrgyzstan’s Criminal Code, prosecutions are almost unheard of. The state can intervene only if a complaint is filed directly by the victim. But, in many bride kidnapping cases, the woman is isolated within the home of the [...]