33 missing children found in anti-human trafficking operation in Southern California

By CNN,

Thirty-three missing children were recovered this month in an anti-human trafficking operation led by FBI's Los Angeles field office, the bureau said ...

South California

Slum dwellers battle COVID-19 downturn with virtual currency

By Reuters,

Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered. As...

coronavirus , sarafu

‘Era of ethnic politics and personality cults overtaken,’ DP Ruto says

By DPPS,

DP William Ruto has said the era of ethnic politics, personality cults and political parties bondage has been overtaken by people-centred politics. ...

ruto

‘We will not bow down!’ Striking doctors tell off CS Kagwe over sacking threats

By Ian Omondi,

Doctors in the country have vowed to go on with their industrial action unless their demands are met, telling Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe to...

CS Mutahi Kagwe , KMPDU , strike

U.N. says human rights must be at core of COVID-19 recovery

By VOA,

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has issued a call to action for international Human Rights Day to build back in a more sustainable and j...

coronavirus , human rights

No gov’t service without Huduma card as use of National ID ceases in Dec. 2021

By Citizen Reporter,

Use of the National ID is to cease starting December 12 next year, ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has said. Also Read: Uhuru signs Bill for prot...

huduma card , Mucheru

Asked repeatedly to say ‘Black lives matter,’ Mike Pence says ‘all lives matter’

By CNN,

Vice President Mike Pence declined to say the words "Black lives matter" during an interview with an ABC affiliate in Pennsylvania on Friday, instead ...

Black lives matter

Princeton University names first black valedictorian in its 274-year history

By CNN,

Princeton University has named its first black valedictorian in the school's 274-year history. Nicholas Johnson, a Canadian student majoring in ope...

princeton university , valedictorian

Social media apps used to buy maids, undercover investigation reveals

By Paul Ombati,

A BBC Africa Eye report has revealed that some apps on Google and Apple are used to buy and sell maids in Kuwait. The Silicon Valley’s Online Sla...

BBC Africa eye , Human Trafficking , maidsfortransfer

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

By Reuters,

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the prom...

slavery , west africa , Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation

France calls on G-7 to double girls’ education funding in Africa’s Sahel

By VOA,

France wants the world’s leading industrial economies to double funding for girls' education in the Sahel at a summit next month in the French town ...

France , French President Emmanuel Macron , The United Nations (UN) , United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Nike featuring Betsy Ross flag canceled after backlash

By CNN,

Nike is canceling a sneaker that featured the "Betsy Ross" version of the American flag from the late 18th century. "Nike has chosen not to release...

Nike Inc , Panama , U.S.A

Last known ship to smuggle slaves from Africa to U.S discovered

By Reuters,

The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the United States has been discovered in Alabama’s Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was ...

Mobile River , Slaves , The Clotilda , United States

Thousands of women sold into sex slavery in China – Report

By CNN,

Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in China, where many are sold as wives to Chinese men whil...

china , girls , human rights , KFI , North Korean , persecution , sex , slavery , sold , Thousands , women

Schoolgirls used as human shields in Congo due to ‘magical powers’ – charities

By Reuters,

Schoolgirls in the Democratic Republic of Congo were raped, forced into marriage and used as human shields by militias who believed they had “magica...

Congo , Human Rights Watch , kidnapping , Schoolgirls

Libya coast guard detains 113 migrants during lull in fighting

By Reuters,

The Libyan coast guard has stopped 113 migrants trying to reach Italy over the past two days, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as boat departures...

‘I am not for sale’ say Nigerian women in anti-trafficking campaign

By Reuters,

Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency is trying a new approach to preventing women’s exploitation abroad by sharing inspirational stories of women who...

Human Trafficking , nigerian women

Stop calling migration a ‘crisis’, says Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

By Reuters,

African migration toward Europe is both inevitable and a positive phenomenon, said Africa’s first female president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate El...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

No more ‘fifth wife’ sex slaves and maids, Niger’s top court rules

By Reuters,

 Niger’s top court has outlawed the practice of keeping women as maids and sex slaves known as “fifth wives”, capping a decade-long legal battl...

Mohamed Mogaze , Nigeria , “wahaya”

Harvard sued by descendant of U.S. slave photographed in 19th century

By Reuters,

A descendant of an American slave on Wednesday sued Harvard University to gain possession of photos of her great-great-great grandfather that the scho...

Havard , sue