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Africa | Nigeria | Corruption

Nigeria police rescue 19 young women, girls from ‘baby factory’

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Nigerian authorities said Monday that 19 girls and young women who were abducted and impregnated by captors who planned to sell their babies have been rescued. Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana said the victims and four babies were rescued from four locations in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The victims, aged between 15 and 28, are mainly from eastern Nigeria. They told police they were tricked into coming to Lagos with the promise of jobs. Nigeria has a high number of syndicates that keep young women to produce babies for sale – a scheme locally termed "baby factories." The p
Latin America | Peru | Corruption

Peruvian women haunted by forced sterilisation seek state apology

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Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole and bully women in a farming community in Peru's highlands to come with them for free medical treatment. Esperanza Huayama, then three months pregnant, was one of scores of women who clambered onto buses that morning 20 years ago for the three-hour ride to a clinic. Lying in a hospital bed, Huayama soon realised something was wrong - but it was too late. Moments later doctors administered anaesthetic and when she woke up, Huayama had been sterilised - victim of a birth control campaign targeting mostly indig
South Asia | Sri Lanka | Corruption

Sri Lanka women cricketers ‘forced into sexual favours’

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Members of Sri Lanka's women's cricket team were forced to perform sexual favours to keep their places in the team, the sports ministry has said. The ministry said evidence of sexual harassment was uncovered in an investigation begun last year. It was launched following reports a player had been dropped for refusing to have sex with cricketing officials. Disciplinary procedures would now be initiated, the ministry said, without naming the individuals involved. "It is a shameful incident," Sri Lankan Children's Minister Rosy Senanayake told the AFP news agency. It is not clear what
Middle East | Egypt | Corruption

Is the Egyptian state using sexual torture against women?

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The Arab spring promised freedom and justice to the 2011 protestors in Tahrir Square, but a damning new report claims that women are being brutalised by police, military and security forces at an unprecedented level. Four years ago, Cairo was a giant billboard for human rights; the words “freedom”, “justice” and “dignity” were graffitied across the city, with the high hopes of Tahrir Square writ large on city streets. What remains today is a patchwork of paint covering up any hint of political protest. This isn’t the only whitewash in Egypt now. According to a dev
North America | United States | Corruption

70 women say their babies may have been taken from them at Homer G. Phillips

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Some 70 women have come forward in less than 24 hours to tell St. Louis city officials they fear their babies were taken from them at birth and then given away. Jaqueline Butler called our newsroom to tell us her story about the birth of her daughter, “If she’s alive I would love to be united or reunited with her.” Butler called after she saw a story concerning Gospel singer Zella Jackson Price.  Price was reunited with her daughter 50 years after giving birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital.  Zella was told her baby had died but she never believed it. Neither did her daughter and la
South Asia | India | Corruption

Marital rape? Marriage sacred in India, says government

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In a statement that could entangle the government in a major controversy and sully its image of a liberal, equitable democracy at the world forum, the government on Wednesday said the concept of marital rape cannot be applied in the Indian context as marriage is considered sacred here. "It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various factors, including level of education, illiteracy, poverty, myriad social customs and values, religious beliefs, mindset of the society to treat the marriage as a
North America | United States | Corruption

Police ‘Coup’ Prevents Newly-Elected St. Louis Area Mayor from Taking Office

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Betty McCray was recently elected to the office of Mayor in the St. Louis County city of Kinloch. But in spite of the fact that the St. Louis County Board of Elections have certified the election results, the local police turned out by the dozen to block her from entering City Hall and beginning her work as mayor. Nearly two dozen police officers greeted McCray on her first day of work, as she tried to enter City Hall. Political opponents met her at the door and wrongly told her that she had been “impeached” before even taking the job. But that’s simply not true. Mayor McCray ha
Latin America | El Salvador | Corruption

In El Salvador, women thrown in jail for miscarriages and stillbirths

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When Guadalupe Vasquez became pregnant at 17 after being raped by a neighbor of the house where she worked as a maid, she decided she wanted the baby. She even picked out a name: Gabriel. Then, on a day in late 2007, pain shot through her back and abdomen. Vasquez says she started bleeding, but her employer wouldn’t let her leave the house to get medical care. Sick in her room and alone, she went into labor. She heard the baby cry briefly, and then he was dead. Only then did the employer send her to the hospital, saying she did not want to “deal with two dead in my house,
Africa | Kenya | Corruption

Tetanus Vaccines Spiked With Sterilization Chemical in Kenya

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Tetanus vaccines given to millions of young women in Kenya have been confirmed by laboratories to contain a sterilization chemical that causes miscarriages, reports the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, a pro-vaccine organization. A whopping 2.3 million young girls and women are in the process of being given the vaccine, pushed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. “We sent six samples from around Kenya to laboratories in South Africa. They tested positive for the HCG antigen,” Dr. Muhame Ngare of the Mercy Medical Centre in Nairobi told LifeSiteNews. “They were all laced
Africa | South Africa | Corruption

Girls as young as 10 sold as sex slaves in South Africa

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One in three of the identified females who were trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation in South Africa last year were girls younger than 18 – with some of them as young as 10, according to human-trafficking expert and University of the Free State researcher Monique Emser. Research conducted in 2014 by the research firm LexisNexis, as part of its annual human trafficking index, tracked down 16 women and eight girls, who had been trafficked and sexually exploited, from media reports. Emser, who was one of the researchers for the index, said the cases were selected from reported
Europe | U.K. | Corruption

Mothers Watch Your Children: More than 260 charged in online child abuse operation

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Teachers, civil servants and police are among 264 people that have been charged following an probe targeting those accessing child abuse images online. A total of 745 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in the National Crime Agency's Operation Notarise, launched just over a year ago. The agency said 518 children had been protected as a result. Of those charged, 47 were employed in positions of trust or voluntary roles with access to children, the NCA said. NCA director general Keith Bristow said the volume of work related to online paedophile cases had placed a strain on invest
Middle East | Lebanon | Corruption

Lebanese customs agents seize radioactive maxi pads

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Customs agents at an airport in the Lebanese capital seized more than half a ton of maxi pads after radioactive material was detected in the shipment. The Lebanese Finance Ministry said the 30 crates of feminine hygiene products, weighing a total 1,221 pounds, were seized Friday at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut after electronic scanners detected radioactivity in the shipment. Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil ordered a sample from the shipment to be sent to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission for testing. The shipment arrived at the airport Friday from Dubai, officia
Europe | Great Britain | Corruption

Home Office handling of Westminster child sex allegations slammed

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This week marked a new beginning for the independent panel inquiry into child sexual abuse. The announcement on Thursday of a four-person panel, the confirmation of the power to compel witnesses and the removal of any cut-off date from the Terms of Reference, means the chairman, Justice Lowell Goddard, can now take the inquiry forward, following the evidence wherever it takes her. We already know the trail will lead into our schools and hospitals, our churches, our youth clubs and many other institutions that should have been places of safety but instead became the setting for t

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