News Source: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_the_last_straw_w/?scrlReb Women in Syria are being forced to stand in front of tanks and act as human shields before they’re stripped and raped by soldiers, but for the first time in months, we have a chance to turn things around. World leaders are planning peace talks that could end this madness, in which […]
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Human trafficking victims tell of drug factory ordeal
8th April 2013 – 15:13
Call to protect those forced into crime after being held prisoner on UK cannabis farms Police examine a cannabis factory after a raid in Leyton, London. Some victims of human trafficking are put to work in such factories and can end up in jail. Photograph: David Levene In her cramped bedsit in a northern English […]
Abducted Children Forced to Fight
24th August 2010 – 15:20
African Rebel Group Forces Children to Become Soldiers, Sex Slaves The Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted more than 697 adults and children over the past 18 months in a largely unreported campaign, Human Rights Watch learned. Nearly one-third of those abducted in the current campaign are children. Many are being forced to […]