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- Joanne Myers
- • June 11, 2018
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Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist based in Rome, covering the large refugee migrations from the Middle East and Africa since 2011, often with an emphasis on women. She has recently written a book, “Roadmap to Hell: Sex,…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Migration, Women
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- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 19, 2018
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While slavery and inhumane practices have still not been eradicated, the United Nations has done much to expose them and to help stamp them out. Its efforts continue. Early after its establishment, the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights carried…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International Justice
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 14, 2018
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Guatemala and Honduras were two of the nine countries that Nikki Haley invited to her “friends of the US” party in January for casting a no vote on a United Nations resolution negating the decision by President Trump to…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Trafficking, Nikki Haley Watch
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
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The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 2, 2017
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Moving away from strictly categorizing rape and other sexual abuse against women as a weapon of war, a new report from the United Nations addresses the increasing use of rape as a weapon of terrorism. The report also documents…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Libya, Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 28, 2017
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New numbers from the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women show that progress of women in politics has stalled in parliaments and at executive levels of government or advanced marginally. The data form the basis of an elaborate Women in…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Take a Look
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- Johanna Higgs
- • December 28, 2016
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — On the outskirts of the capital here, it is dark and loud in a makeshift bar as Congolese music blares across the room. When we ask two patrons if children are there, they point…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • April 11, 2016
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Experts on human trafficking and slavery are calling for strong involvement by the private sector in tackling the enormous challenge of these abuses, particularly with girls and women. At the same time, the experts, who spoke at a recent…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • January 24, 2016
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BUENOS AIRES — Like many countries, Argentina is considered a source, transit and destination nation for the trafficking of men, women and girls, according to the United States State Department. Female victims and children are brought to the country…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2015
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In time for Universal Children’s Day, a new report shows how the war on drugs hurts children’s health, puts them into the line of fire amid drug-gang violence and leads them into the netherworld of human trafficking and enslavement….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Trafficking, Latin America, Poverty
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 29, 2015
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Seizing a chance to respond more coherently to the deadly situation in Syria, the European Union and Jordan are proposing a “resilience plan” to alleviate the humanitarian emergency while pushing for a political course to stop the Syrian government…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Libya, Middle East, Refugees
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 11, 2015
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Will the European Union go ahead and militarily dismantle migrant smugglers’ networks operating in Libya without authorization from the United Nations Security Council and resistance to the plan from Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general? Federica Mogherini, the head of…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
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On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 12, 2015
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The Russian-sponsored resolution to fight more precisely the financing of the Islamic jihadists who control swaths of Iraq and Syria passed unanimously in the United Nations Security Council recently, expressing the entire council’s dread, at least for now, of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Middle East, Security Council
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 7, 2014
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PHNOM PENH — Dueling depictions of Somaly Mam, the Cambodian activist who has campaigned against sex trafficking in her country and elsewhere, have splashed across large media outlets in the last six months. Mam, who contends she was a…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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