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August 27, 2019

Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors

Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria.

Women's Rights

August 27, 2019 News Release

Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors
Children's Rights

June 14, 2018 News Release

Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School
Refugees and Migrants

August 13, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Europe’s Refugee Crisis – Has UK Forgotten the Past?

Iain Levine
Deputy Executive Director, Program

Reports More Reports

June 14, 2018

Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers
December 1, 2003

Policy Paralysis

A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa
April 1, 2003

Borderline Slavery

Child Trafficking In Togo

News

October 30, 2017 Letter

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Benin
March 10, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights
May 21, 2015 News Release

EU: Don’t Endanger Lives at Sea or Deny Protection
July 30, 2009 Statement

African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
December 9, 2008 Letter

European Union: Urgently Deploy a "Bridging" Force to North Kivu in the eastern DRC
March 11, 2008 Letter

Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism
July 2, 2003 Statement

President Bush's Trip to Africa
June 11, 2003 News Release

U.S. State Department Trafficking Report Undercut by Lack of Analysis
April 1, 2003 News Release

West Africa: Stop Trafficking in Child Labor

Daily Brief

January 20, 2020

Peruvians with disabilities left off voting lists; UK should guarantee unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are reunited with their families; authors of CIA torture program to testify at Guantanamo; end abusive exit permits for migrant workers in Qatar; Hong Kong legislators should improve Privacy Ordinance rights protections; Cambodia pressed to drop charges against two journalists; step forward to end period poverty in England; and planning to commemorate 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.