Originally posted by Yahoo News Digest on September 23, 2016— “The office of Jill Westmoreland Rose, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina in Charlotte, has “begun investigative efforts” into the online communications between disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner and a 15-year-old girl, officials said. Meantime, an FBI task force in New … More Police, Feds Investigating Weiner for Alleged Online Chats with Teen Girl

Originally posted by The World Bank on September 15, 2016— “Forced displacement is a crisis centered in developing countries, which host 89 percent of refugees and 99 percent of internally displaced persons, says a new World Bank report. At its root are the same 10 conflicts which have accounted for the majority of the forcibly … More Forced Displacement: A Developing World Crisis

Originally posted on PolarisProject.org— “Across the United States, thousands of Latina women are prisoners of the sex trafficking industry in bars and cantinas. These women are victims of an underground sex economy, run by traffickers who go largely untouched. From December 2007 to March 2016, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline and BeFree Textline … More More Than Drinks for Sale: Sex Trafficking in U.S. Cantinas and Bars

Originally posted on Sept. 1, 2016, by Yahoo News— “When world leaders touch down in early September in the city of Hangzhou for this year’s G20 leaders’ summit, which China will they see? The one of glossy skylines, enviable growth statistics, and perfectly choreographed diplomatic exchanges? Or the one in which China’s prominent human and … More It’s Time to Rethink the World’s Approach to Human Rights in China

Originally posted on July 14, 2016 by AFP — “Afghanistan is failing to protect tens of thousands of children, some as young as five, from hazardous jobs that are prohibited by its own laws, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Thursday said. The 31-page report titled “They Bear All the Pain: Hazardous Child Labour … More Human Rights Watch Slams Child Labour in Afghanistan, Calls on Govt to Enforce Laws

http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/tv/2016/07/11/usa-california-bakery-slavery-sidner-pkg.cnn   Originally posted on CNN.com. For the rest of the original article, please click HERE.

Originally posted by Rebecca Wright, for CNN, on June 22, 2016— “Teenage recruits were raped by staff and forced to rape each other as part of initiation practices in the Australian military going back to 1960, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is hearing evidence from … More Australian Commission: Military Cadets Raped as Initiation

Originally by JAMEY KEATEN, for The Associated Press, on June 16, 2016— “The Islamic State group is committing genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, a U.N. panel said Thursday, calling on countries to do more to stop it and build a legal case on top of … More UN Syria Panel: IS Committing Genocide Against Yazidis

Originally posted by The Associated Press on June 15, 2016— “Three more women filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Baylor University on Wednesday, saying the school did nothing to help them after they reported being sexually assaulted on or near campus. The Baptist school in Waco, Texas, has come under intense criticism for mishandling … More Three More Women Sue Baylor U. Over Handling of Rape Allegations

Originally posted by Jonathan Kaiman on June 15, 2016 for the Los Angeles Times— “In June 2015, a restaurant declined to hire Gao Xiao as a line cook because of her gender. Men prepare the food, a restaurant employee told her; women only serve it. So Gao filed a lawsuit. In the U.S., this likely would … More In China, feminism is growing — and so is the backlash