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International Court of Justice rules in favor of Rohingya
February 7, 2020 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
The United Nations’ highest court today ordered measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The decision comes despite de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defending her country against the accusations in person last month. In a momentous and unanimous decision by a panel of 17 judges, the International Court of Justice […]
Read More...THE LONG WAR AGAINST SLAVERY
February 7, 2020 · By Casey Cep for www.newyorker.com
Here’s to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies,” Samuel Johnson once toasted at an Oxford dinner party, or so James Boswell claims. The veracity of Boswell’s biography—including its representation of Johnson’s position on slavery—has long been contested. In the course of more than a thousand pages, little mention is made of […]
Read More...Caged like animals: Inside Bangkok’s notorious IDC
February 6, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center (IDC) has long been notorious for the squalid and overcrowded conditions in which inmates — including children, women and the elderly — have been forced to languish for months and even years on end. Yet surreptitiously taken photographs obtained by UCA News paint an even darker picture of inmates’ plight inside […]
Read More...‘If a child can talk, it can have sex’ Sick pervert loses appeal against travel ban
February 6, 2020 · By LAURA MOWAT for www.express.co.uk
A SHAMELESS paeodophile who declared “if a child is old enough to talk, it’s old enough to have sex” has lost his appeal against a ban restricting him from visiting countries where the age of consent is lower than the UK’s. Police have described Jason Leonard, 37, as “one of the most dangerous” registered sex […]
Read More...Young offenders in ‘harmful solitary confinement’ in England and Wales
February 5, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A boy at a young offenders institution was left to lie on a mattress on the floor of a “filthy” cell for more than 22 hours a day, a report has revealed. The chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales, Peter Clarke, said a practice of separating children from their peers at YOIs amounted […]
Read More...Inside ‘paedo paradise’ The Gambia where sex beasts are buying African children and toddlers to rape
February 5, 2020 · By Graeme Culliford for www.thesun.co.uk
TRAGIC Gambian children are being sold to British paedophiles for as little as £2-a-time by their desperate parents, Sun Online can reveal. Huge numbers of predators are taking advantage of lax laws in the poverty stricken African country to embark on sick child abuse holidays where they openly target little boys and girls. Sun Online […]
Read More...How a boy from Vietnam became a slave on a UK cannabis farm
February 5, 2020 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.brisbanetimes.com.au
It was a horrifying death for the 39 Vietnamese nationals found in the back of a trailer in an industrial park in Essex, in October last year. The story shone a light on the subterranean world of people smuggling and human trafficking, reports Cat McShane, specifically the thriving route between Vietnam and the UK. Ba […]
Read More...Immune discovery ‘may treat all cancer’
February 5, 2020 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists. The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have “enormous potential”. Experts […]
Read More...Romanian court upholds acquittal of UK trafficking suspects
January 31, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A Romanian court has upheld the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation. The men were arrested in 2010 as part of a large joint operation with British police – where children were rescued in London raids. The men were accused of running a scheme where children were sent across the […]
Read More...Four people held on suspicion of human trafficking after raids
January 29, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking offences after raids in north-east England. They were detained after officers targeted two residential and two business addresses in Middlesbrough and residential address in the Washington. A man, aged 36, and three women, aged 23, 32 and 36 have been released while inquiries continue, after […]
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