Modern slavery: how a drama project in Ghana educates communities through the stories of survivors
AN estimated 40.3 million people around the world are trapped in slavery. One in four victims are children, with women
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Tigray war ignored because of racism: WHO boss
THE World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has suggested that racism is behind a lack of international attention being
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U.N. adds Ukraine, Ethiopia, Mozambique to children killing inquiry
U.N. officials will investigate the killing and wounding of children in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Mozambique, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said
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‘World Falling Part”: Record number of people displaced in own countries
EMMA FARGE IN a world beset by conflicts and natural disasters, the number of people who fled their homes and
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Ghana’s human trafficking scourge
JAMILA AKWELEY OKERTCHIRI “It feels like yesterday when I was deceived by one man who claimed to be a travelling
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Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa: scholars weigh in on the migrant question
INTERNATIONAL migration in South Africa, particularly as it relates to the labour market, is a highly contentious topic. We, the
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Kenyan domestic workers’ doomed voyages to the Gulf
JOYCE CHIMBI DISTRESS calls from vulnerable Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia experiencing mistreatment and torture at the hands of their
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In the year to end child labour, COVID wreaks havoc
EMELINE WUILBERCQ FOR Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka, 2021 was an especially good year. He and his team rescued more
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Trafficked, trapped in Libya: A Nigerian woman’s story
SAM OLUKOYA MIRIAM* hoped for a better life in Europe. Instead, her journey ended in Libya, where, double-crossed by traffickers
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Cameroon’s sex workers seek a digital solution
AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG AS dusk fell one evening in March 2020, Giftie Ade Kumbi, alias Vanessa, sat in a bar
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