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Parents marry off teenage girls in Ankole for cattle – Daily Monitor
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Parents marry off teenage girls in Ankole for cattle – Daily Monitor

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Parents are marrying off their daughters at a young age in exchange for bride price in Ankole Sub-region, Monitor has established. The bride price usually ranges between 10 to 12 cows and an agreed sum of money. The situation was made worse during the two Covid-19-induced lockdowns in March 2020 and June 2021 that saw…

Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it
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Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it

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An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. In a Soviet-styled way to make money off taxpayer funds for its own benefit, the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has hired its own for-profit company to refurbish and reclaim its prison doors. And the workers making…

Forced Prison Labor in China: Hiding in Plain Sight
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Forced Prison Labor in China: Hiding in Plain Sight

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Ancient Mogilev, a former city of the medieval Duchy of Lithuania and now part of Belarus close to the border with Russia, cradled along the River Dnieper, is a most unlikely spot for an interview about forced prison labor in China. But this is the home to which Dima Siakatsky returned after his release from…