Iran’s investigations into abuses are a sham, says Amnesty

"The Iranian government’s investigations into allegations of torture, rape and unlawful killings in the country “seemed to have been more concerned with covering up abuses than getting at the truth”, Amnesty International said today." Well, there's nothing too...

107 slave laborers freed in Mexico City

"Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center." This piece comes with a trigger warning - the details contained within are sickening and harrowing. ...

Georgians encounter Extraterrestrials in State Park camping trip

The following alien encounter was reported to have occurred on 20 August 2009 at Unicoi State Park, Georgia in the United States. A husband and wife had gone camping on Saturday and on Sunday 4: 00 am in the morning when the wife woke up to go to the restroom. (There was a...

UN Peacekeepers disciplined for sexual abuse: a slap on a wrist

" Today is the international abolition day of slavery. Remembering all the victims of modern day slavery around the world and sexual abuse, I am searching for the reports on whether the authorities have brought the remedies for the victims of child molestation and sexual...

Rape complaint woman reaches settlement with police

"In the first known case of its kind, a woman who made a rape complaint which was not investigated properly has reached an out of court settlement with police. Catherine says the man who raped her knew he was targeting a particularly vulnerable woman." This is gratifying news...

Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law days before UN Climate Negotiation

Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed "anti-riot law", less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations...

Sri Lanka Army raped under-age Tamil girls - Evidences emerges

Sri Lanka Army officers operating in IDP camps in Vanni were involved in various rape cases. Evidences started emerging " Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intelligence officers operating in the internment camps of Vanni have been allegedly involved in several rape cases during the...

Bereaved Parents to Petition High Court Against Shalit's Release

The prisoner exchange that is being finalized in order to release kidnapped Gilad Shalit will be petitioned for cancellation by many Israeli bereaved parents. Gilad Shalit

Push to criminalise parental abductions.

To-day in the Australian media, it has been reported that The Family Law Reform Association of New South Wales is calling on the Federal Government to make it a crime for a parent to take a child out of Australia without the other parent's consent....

Christian women face rape, forced conversion to Muslim

" Christian teens abducted, raped and coerced into marriage and conversion to Islam does not happen in Egyptian soil alone.[12] In fact, many of them face the same abuses by the Muslim extremist in other countries too. Take Pakistan, for example. 10 years old and 12 years old...