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Africa: Migrant Crisis Fuels Sex Trafficking Of Nigerian Girls

A promising student who dreamed of going to university, Mary was sixteen when a woman approached her mother at their home and offered to take the Nigerian teenager to Italy to find work. Pushed to go by her family who hoped she would lift them out of poverty, Mary ended up [continue reading].

Part Two: Humanitarian Crises – Crimes Against ‘At-Risk’ Children

Two homeless brothers try to survive on the streets of India.

Part two of this report focuses on the growing crisis of missing, trafficked and abused children around the world. While every country has a deep concern for vulnerable children, and many end up heinously abused, trafficked or killed; nonetheless there are countries where [continue reading].

Documentary: Refugee Women And Girls Exploited And Sold For Sex

“Whenever a war wages, our women end up as the victims,” said Capt Khatoon Khider, a member of the Sun Ladies, A significant number of women and children in the large Iraqi refugee community in Syria are forced into sexual exploitation by criminal gangs or, in [continue reading].

Iraq: Girls Who Escaped ISIS Are Speaking Out And Fighting Back

The teenager, Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi, was taken to Syria and then to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, she told an event in London on Wednesday. "They raped us, they killed our men, they took our babies away from us," Alawsi, now 17, said at the event organised by the UK-based AMAR Foundation, a charity that provides education and healthcare in the Middle East.

Several hundred Yazidi And Kurdish women and girls who had been kidnapped by ISIS in Northern Iraq and Kurdistan – sold to the Islamic extremist fighters and used as domestic and sex slaves – have joined an all-female battalion to launch a massive assault against [continue reading].

Documentary: VICE – Interviews Boko Haram And Genetic Selection

Season Four of VICE TV on HBO begins with a report from Nigeria on the government’s fight against the terrorist group Boko Haram. You can watch more VICE TV on HBO in our Documentaries section. 🔝 Watch rare video interviews and news reports in our Documentaries [continue reading].

USA: Immigration Arrests 29 Human Traffickers

Macon, Georgia: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested 29 people in 13 cities and eight states Thursday on sex trafficking and related charges in a sweeping operation dubbed “Operation Safe Haven” targeting a [continue reading].

(Graphic 18+) Iraq: Sisters Sold To ISIS Fighter At Ages 17 And 10

An aid worker shares a harrowing account from one teenager ‘gang-raped, beaten and scalded with boiling water in nine-month ordeal’. A Yazidi teenager who was sold to an Isis fighter has described how she was beaten and gang-raped on a daily basis in a harrowing [continue reading].