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UN Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally arrived in Bangladesh today (October 31, 2022) on a 10-day official visit to assess the human rights issue of trafficking in persons. “I will pay particular attention to the main challenges to ensuring the human rights of victims, and effective prevention of trafficking,” she said in a statement. A particular…
Bhilwara girls auctioned on stamp papers: The horrific incident was highlighted in a NHRC report released earlier this week. By HT News Desk Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday deflected criticism of his government over horrific reports of girls being auctioned on stamp papers, declaring ‘the incident happened in 2005… when the Bharatiya Janata…
Foreign workers (migrant workers) for defense contractors on at least four U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf are trapped in their jobs by abusive employment practices that they say prevent them from returning home or even looking for better work in the region, more than 30 current and former workers said in interviews. Many…
US military bases in the Persian Gulf depend on armies of men and women subjected to coercive practices, the paper claims American military bases in the Persian Gulf region use the services of subcontractors who could be classed as victims of human trafficking, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Federal law bans paying taxpayer money…
Abdulla thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime. After struggling to find work in his home country of Bangladesh, he said a recruiter offered him a chance to work in a restaurant thousands of miles away in Kuwait City for the equivalent of $660 a month. There was a catch: He would have to…
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. “Our taxpayer dollars are being used potentially to support forced labor and human trafficking, and that’s just unacceptable,” a U.S. government auditor said. Watch video here. By Molly Boigon, Andrew W. Lehren, Laura Strickler, Courtney Kube, Anna Schecter and Yousef H. Alshammari Abdulla thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime….
Listen to the podcast here. Transcript Bob McMahon: (00:01) In the coming week, the UN General Assembly considers condemning Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions. The Arctic Circle Assembly meets in Iceland and the International Day of the Girl marks its 10th anniversary. It’s October 6th, 2022, and time for The World Next Week. I’m…
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu’s statement on shifting the state’s Chakma refugees to other parts of India has sparked tension. The Chakmas, a Buddhist ethnic group with a rich cultural heritage, originally hailed from the Chittagong Hill Tracts and entered India in 1964 through Tripura and Mizoram. They were displaced when the erstwhile East…
Cathy Miller, PhD, RN, professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Tyler, presented her research on human trafficking to the World Health Organization at the United Nations in New York. The UT Tyler professor is part of a team spearheading the UN’s Global Strategic Operatives for the Eradication of Human Trafficking Initiative….
Image Description: Two different handprints with a heart drawn in between them Recently, the Indian Supreme Court discussed the idea of expanding the traditional idea of a family unit in Deepika Singh v. CAT. The main issue in the case was the interpretation of Rule 43 of the Central Civil Service (Leave) Rules of 1972…
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