Tag: Human rights abuses

Children as young as three and six years have become favourites of female child traffickers as they will not be ...

The Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of Ghana Police Service has recorded 15 child trafficking cases in the Central ...

The Founder of Global Rescue Project, Leah Stenzel, says Ghana’s achievement in the fight against child labour is unacceptably low. ...

Worldwide, human trafficking is a canker that eats into the fabrics of every nation and impedes its development. The indigenous ...

The Middle East forced labour bandits and the polemic of slavery conventions The recent countless images and voice messages which ...

As news broke that India's army had commended a senior officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep and ...

Engage Now Africa (ENA), an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has lauded government’s unwavering commitment to fight ...

Pakistani officials claimed Tuesday they have arrested the mastermind behind several attacks that killed scores of people in the restive ...

Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight ...

A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in ...

Claims by government that the two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay were to spend only two years in Ghana, have ...

Researchers on Monday urged tougher laws to protect victims of "revenge porn" in Australia after a survey revealed abuses, including ...

One in five Australians has suffered image-based abuse, according to the nation's most comprehensive study on "revenge porn". The national ...

Thirteen men accused of involvement in the murder of high-ranking police officer Andrew Kaweesi and two aides appeared in court ...

A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for subjecting her three-year-old nephew to severe beatings, denying him food for days and ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana to intensify the fight against child labour. Delivering his speech at ...

The Police have rescued 31 children engaged in forced labour on the Volta Lake in the Volta Region. The police ...

Afghan security officials are increasingly employing torture to extract confessions from alleged insurgents, including children, according to a UN report ...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Internet use have increased very much both nationally and internationally. This has enabled many ...

One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned ...