Khmer Rouge

Human trafficking picks a new fight | WORLD – WNG.org
|

Human trafficking picks a new fight | WORLD – WNG.org

ByEyes on Trafficking News

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 9th of February, 2023. Thanks for listening to WORLD Radio today! Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown. MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. First up on The World and Everything in It: human trafficking. Estimates are that more than 27 million people endure forced labor around the world. To…

Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy
|

Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record of 38 years in power is currently exceeded by only three African despots. The presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Uganda, Théodoros Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Paul Biya, and Yoweri Museveni, have all held power for longer than Hun Sen. Like him, they are political fossils who have done…

Court upholds Cambodia Khmer Rouge leader's conviction in final ruling – TRT World
|

Court upholds Cambodia Khmer Rouge leader's conviction in final ruling – TRT World

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The UN-backed tribunal was ruling on an appeal by Khieu Samphan, head of state for the regime that wiped out a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than four years in the 1970s. Cambodia’s UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court has given its final verdict, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on…

Wildlife and drug trafficking, terrorism, and human security
| | | |

Wildlife and drug trafficking, terrorism, and human security

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The planet is experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching stimulated by a greatly expanding demand for animals, plants, and wildlife products. The rate of species extinction, now as much as 1,000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, deserves…

Transforming Communities, Changing Lives
|

Transforming Communities, Changing Lives

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Without her husband, she and her children would be thrust deeper into their cycle of debt and poverty. Without him, her family, neighbours and friends would judge, criticize and sneer. If she left him, she didn’t know how she would possibly survive. It can be difficult for us to understand why a woman would stay…