Children as young as three and six years have become favourites of female child traffickers as they will not be impregnated. This is part of highlights of a baseline study by the International...
The Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of Ghana Police Service has recorded 15 child trafficking cases in the Central Region within the first quarter of 2017 alone. The Central Regional...
The Founder of Global Rescue Project, Leah Stenzel, says Ghana’s achievement in the fight against child labour is unacceptably low. The leader of the American volunteer group told 3news.com that...
Worldwide, human trafficking is a canker that eats into the fabrics of every nation and impedes its development. The indigenous and the marginalised people who suffer abject poverty, and are...
The Middle East forced labour bandits and the polemic of slavery conventions The recent countless images and voice messages which are making the rounds on the social media and purported to be from...
As news broke that India's army had commended a senior officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep and used him as a human shield, thoughts turned to the message this sends on how the forthcoming...
Engage Now Africa (ENA), an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has lauded government’s unwavering commitment to fight illegal-mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in the...
Pakistani officials claimed Tuesday they have arrested the mastermind behind several attacks that killed scores of people in the restive southwest, including a devastating blast targeting lawyers in...
Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight escalating brutality and impunity by the country's security personnel....
A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in a report published Friday, and called on Islamabad to implement...
Claims by government that the two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay were to spend only two years in Ghana, have strongly been disputed. The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad...
Researchers on Monday urged tougher laws to protect victims of "revenge porn" in Australia after a survey revealed abuses, including shooting and sharing intimate images without permission, on a...
One in five Australians has suffered image-based abuse, according to the nation's most comprehensive study on "revenge porn". The national survey of more than 4,200 people found that men and women...
Thirteen men accused of involvement in the murder of high-ranking police officer Andrew Kaweesi and two aides appeared in court Friday, with some claiming they had been tortured while in detention....
A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for subjecting her three-year-old nephew to severe beatings, denying him food for days and leaving assault marks all over the boy’s body at Agbobloshie, in...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana to intensify the fight against child labour. Delivering his speech at the 2017 May Day Celebration, the president warned that, Ghana could...
The Police have rescued 31 children engaged in forced labour on the Volta Lake in the Volta Region. The police also arrested 11 persons in connection with the trafficking of the children. The...
Afghan security officials are increasingly employing torture to extract confessions from alleged insurgents, including children, according to a UN report issued Monday that urged Kabul to bring more...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Internet use have increased very much both nationally and internationally. This has enabled many to use the ICT and the Internet for so many good...
One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned with acid and choking on earth as soldiers buried him alive. Mexico called...
