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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

September 18, 2019

Outrage is growing in Zimbabwe after a doctor and union leader were reportedly abducted over the weekend; Taliban attacks are on the rise ahead of Afghanistan's presidential elections; the word "they" - for people who identify as non-binary - has been added to a major dictionary; Bahrain rejects pleas to free Nabeel Rajab; new regulations put some US meat workers at risk of injury; rights groups press UN chief on China's Xinjiang abuses; and Barack Obama meets inspirational climate activist Greta Thunberg...