UK: Forced Marriage Teenager Raped and Sister Assaulted
Yet another report of the continuing tragedies of “forced marriages” ongoing in the United Kingdom and around the world: UK: Daily Mail reports: “Girl, 15,…
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Pakistan: Children Being Taught Hate – Trained to be Suicide Bombers
Taliban using children as part of ‘Violent Extemism’ — “14-year-old boy recruited by Taliban in Swat recalls recruitment” — “Intelligence reports estimate more than 5,000…
North Korea ‘Tests Weapons on Children’
North Korea ‘Tests Weapons on Children’ — “But among the accounts they carried with them is one of the most shocking yet to emerge —…
Communist Chinese babies ‘sold for adoption in Europe’
Communist Chinese babies ‘sold for adoption in Europe’ — “Authorities in China are investigating reports that dozens of babies who were taken from their parents…
Somalia – Islamists Behead Two Sons of Christian Leader
Compass: “Somalia – Islamists Behead Two Sons of Christian Leader” — Compass Direct News reports: “extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their…
Pakistan “Honor killings”: Couple, including teenage bride, mother, sister murdered
(Pakistan) Honour killings: Couple, 3 relatives gunned down — “More than three-dozen attackers were dressed in Punjab police uniforms and fully equipped to avenge the…
Saudi Arabia: Child Marriage Not Prohibited Under “Sharia Law”
Saudi working on child marriage curbs: rights chief — “Aiban said the problem is that under Islamic sharia law, the foundation of the Saudi justice…
Germany: Turk stabs teen daughter in ‘honour killing’ – because daughter “did not want to follow the Muslim way”
Turk stabs teen daughter in ‘honour killing’ — “A 45-year-old Turkish man has admitted stabbing his 15-year-old daughter to death because she did not follow…
Kyrgyzstan: Child Brides — “in accordance with Muslim Sharia law in a wedding ceremony known as a nikah”
(Kyrgyzstan) Child Brides — “in accordance with Muslim Sharia law in a wedding ceremony known as a nikah”
U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report 2009 and Gender Imbalance in Human Trafficking
U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report 2009 — See also “Sudan: Women and Other Slaves Freed” Gender Imbalance in Human Trafficking — Introduction, page…