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Egypt is a country located in North Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the most populous country in the Arab world and has a rich history dating back to ancient times. Egypt is known for its many cultural and historical landmarks, such as the Pyramids of Giza and the Nile River, and is a major tourist destination. The country has a mixed economy with a large public sector and significant oil and natural gas resources. Egypt has a diverse population and is a member of the United Nations and the African Union.
Photograph by Karen Almond / Courtesy Met Opera The epigraph to Sister Helen Prejean’s book “Dead Man Walking,” published in 1993, is from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting in Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come:…
AMMAN – Child marriage has repercussions on human development throughout all stages of women’s lives, according to a recent study by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The study, titled “The cost of child marriage over the life cycle of girls and women”, was published in September 2023. Its findings are…
Editor’s note: Melissa Dykes’ documentarian background and her extensive experience of researching very real psychological mind control techniques and their effects on a population should be taken into account (visit her IMDB page here) when watching this piece. She has a keen take on how people get manipulated by media, and this (user-generated self-images and…
Chinese threat actors breached Japan’s cybersecurity agency Earlier this month, Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy, or NISC, disclosed a data breach exposed emails to a third-party. The Financial Times’ sources say the Japanese government believes China’s People’s Liberation Army orchestrated the attack. It’s believed the hack took place in October 2022, but…
More than 200,000 people are being forced to carry out cyber scams in Southeast Asia, the United Nations estimates. A report published Tuesday by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documents the monumental scale of trafficking into an illicit industry that took off following the pandemic and shows no sign of slowing…
Be Slavery Free (beslaveryfree.com) has a new awesome resource… a weekly podcast! We have more enslaved people in the world now than any other point in human history. It’s called Modern Slavery, but slavery has been around for a long time. The trade is in people but the currency is hope. Stories and history, laws…
A mock tattoo parlor drew people into the walk-through experience, highlighting who is at risk of human trafficking. As viewers moved further into the exhibition, dimly lit boys’ and girls’ bedrooms were visible. A table with surgical instruments — alluding to illegal organ harvesting — and 90 photos of the faces of missing children completed…
The organ trade is a complex crime that is fuelled by the high demand for organ transplants and rising global inequalities. The root causes of the trade need to be addressed and stronger responses are needed to tackle the more organised and exploitative forms of the trade, writes Frederike Ambagtsheer for The Conversation. Organ trade…
Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought a man to the UK from Lagos to sell his kidney. Several months later in Kenya, following the arrest…
The United States on Thursday denounced the little-known but growing global phenomenon of boys and young men caught up in forced labor trafficking. The condemnation came as part of a wider criticism of what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called “concerning trends” in human trafficking in general. In presenting the State Department’s annual 188-country trafficking…
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