Essay: Modern slavery and climate change – how extreme weather fuels forced labour and unwanted marriages

Legal scholar DANIEL OGUNNIYI, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the intersection of climate change and modern slavery in Africa today…
Worst may be coming in east Congo conflict, says UN rights head

Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The worst could be yet to come in east Congo’s escalating crisis, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase. He spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council called by Congo to investigate massive rights violations it […]
Women held as sex slaves in Sudan’s South Kordofan, Human Rights Watch says

Cairo, Egypt Reuters Women from Sudan’s South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday. The RSF did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It has regularly denied […]
UN panel accuses regional South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes, beheadings

Nairobi, Kenya Reuters South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication. Investigators say sexual abuse has been used as a weapon by all sides in South Sudan’s […]
CAMEROON: SEPARATIST CONFLICT TRAPS GIRLS IN SEX AND SERVITUDE

A report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation looks at the plight of girls in the midst of Cameroon’s conflict…
North Korean women tell of slavery and gang rape in Chinese cybersex dens

London Thomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls – some as young as nine – are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the reclusive state said on Monday. The sexual exploitation of North Koreans generates at […]
Smugglers prey on migrants seeking better life in Chile, say experts
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of migrants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic seeking a better life in more prosperous Chile are at high risk of labour exploitation and trafficking as migration to the South American nation soars, experts say. At least 100,000 migrants arrived in Chile last year from Haiti, the poorest nation in the […]