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Veronica Gwaze In a space of a month, Zimbabweans have woken up to two bizarre cases of child sexual abuse. A nine-year-old girl from Tsholotsho last week became the youngest mother in the country after giving birth to a baby girl at the United Bulawayo Hospitals through caesarean section (C-section). Barely days before people could…
ISLAMABAD – Speakers of a consultative session have called for concerted efforts to cope with human trafficking and migrant smuggling. They were speaking at the consultative session conducted under the EU-funded GLO.ACT – Global Action to Address Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants (GLOACT – Asia and the Middle East). The United Nations…
Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist in 2020, received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. Lewis is just one of several teenagers — often of color — who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter…
Mississippi’s 2021 human trafficking report COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- According to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, human trafficking is becoming more common in small towns rather than large cities. An agent from the human trafficking and special victims unit, Ashlee Lucas, spoke to the Columbus Exchange Club today. According to MBI’s website, there were 275 reports…
This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. Hope for Justice has welcomed the progress made by Uganda in fighting human trafficking, reflected in it being upgraded to a Tier 2…
Turks and Caicos Islands was mentioned three times in the US State Department’s 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report, but the country has not been accused therein of human trafficking. The report, which was released in July 2022, mentioned Turks and Caicos Islands in relation to Colombia, Haiti and Cuba. In relation to Cuba, the report…
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Baindu Dasama during the Ministry of Information and Communications weekly press briefing noted that a minimum of 25 years custodial sentence has been provided for persons convicted for the offence of human trafficking. She made this disclosure while popularizing the Anti-Human Trafficking…
Israel is not doing enough to prevent human trafficking and ”does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking,” the annual U.S. State Department report on human trafficking stated for the second year in a row. Haaretz goes to Saudi Arabia: LISTEN to Ben Samuels and David Makovsky The report states that…
KAZAKHSTAN: TIER 2 The Government of Kazakhstan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore Kazakhstan remained…
UNICEF warns of a significant jump in the number of adolescent girls being forced into early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the region’s worst drought in 40 years pushes families to the edge. Girls as young as age 12 are being forced into child marriage at “alarming rates” in the Horn of…
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