WNN Breaking (WNN) United Nations Geneva, SWITZERLAND, WESTERN EUROPE: In early 2014 U.S. Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, Mark Ungar, who is also a faculty member of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, witnessed a judge of the Honduran courts being gunned down in early 2014 on the sidewalk […]
Cameron Conaway (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: If there can be celebrities of the anti-slavery movement, Ima Matul is certainly one of them. Her brutal story about being trafficked and rising to become a role model for survivors has been featured on CNN, and in 2012 President Barack Obama recognized her as a modern-day […]
Human Rights Watch – WNN Improve It (WNN/HRW) Bangkok, THAILAND, SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA: Thailand’s government should urgently send ethnic Rohingya children from Burma and their families to safe and open family shelters. New research documents abuses by Thai authorities, who should take action against camps in southern Thailand used for trafficking Rohingya and punish officials complicit in […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/UN) United Nations Kinshasa, DR CONGO, MIDDLE AFRICA: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said today it is extremely concerned about persistent reports of child recruitment by armed groups in the country, and called on all actors to help stop this grave violation against children. According […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: In a detailed and comprehensive nation-wide campaign sweep that reached into 76 separate U.S. cities, 47 state divisions of the U.S. FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation along with 230 separate agencies and 3,900+ local, state and federal law enforcement officers, have successfully rescued 105 children who […]
Lauren Hersh for Equality Now – WNN SOAPBOX Making a pivotal decision today, legislators at the State of New York Assembly (U.S.) are voting on an important bill that affects women and girls throughout the State – the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act. Over 100 organizations statewide have come together to plea for the […]
WNN Features (WNN) Calcutta, West Bengal, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: “It is estimated that 200,000 Bangladeshi children have been trafficked for sexual exploitation through the borders of [India’s] West Bengal and Assam States,” says a report from ECPAT International, which is working today to end child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. […]
WNN Justice (WNN/EN) Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA, SOUTH-EAST ASIA: The need to hear the voices of survivors of human rights abuse is not going away. It is with us now more than ever. In an on-going series highlighting women and girl survivors of violence and sex-trafficking global advocates Equality Now is bringing the voices of […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/RW) Damascus, SYRIA, MIDDLE EAST: Aid agency World Vision is voicing concerns that the risk of girls as young as 12 being married could increase, as parents who flee Syria struggle to protect their children amid a deepening humanitarian crisis. Reports from aid agencies and UN bodies show some parents taking refuge in […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/EN) Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA PACIFIC: In the 1980s, the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was the largest U.S. military base outside of the U.S. with an estimated 500 million USD generated by the brothels surrounding it. Local traffickers and brothel owners engaged in the business of buying and selling women […]
