T10 yaşındaki Fatima Furiro’nun ölümü, sosyal medyada ortaya çıkan iki sansasyonel video olmasaydı hem üzücü hem de sakin olabilirdi. Videoların gizemli bir şekilde internette ortaya çıkmasından günler sonra, bu hafta küçük kızın cesedi otopsi için mezardan çıkarıldı. Fotoğraflardan birinde Fatima’nın vücudunda işkence izleri görülüyordu, diğerinde ise onun acı içinde kıvrandığı ve yere yığılmadan önce ayağa…
Bu hafta Kaçakçılık serisine bir kez daha bakıyoruz. Bu bölüm ilk olarak 24 Mart 2023’te yayınlandı. Yedi ay sonra İngiltere’de Julia tacirlere olan borcunu ödeyememiş, kızına para gönderememiş. Otel işini bırakıp başka işlere başvurmaya çalışır ancak belgesi olmadığı için reddedilir. Hiçbir evrak gerekmediğini söyleyen bir iş ilanına yanıt veriyor. Slough’daki bir genelev için. ‘Korkmuştum. Kızlar…
Jordanian secret police have been accused of intimidating gay people by “outing” them to their families and of forcing the closure of two LGBTQ+ organisations. Human rights groups say activists have been abducted, harassed and monitored, as well as having their sexuality revealed to religiously conservative families. Sources say the intimidation campaign has seen a…
The Kenyan government has launched an inquiry into allegations of abuse by the British army, which MPs say could have implications for the future role of UK troops in the country. The investigation will examine the activities of the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk), whose soldiers have been accused of murder, sexual abuse, and…
A 16-year-old girl from Nepal has died as a result of the illegal practice of chhaupadi, where menstruating women are forced to stay in huts outside their homes. Anita Chand, from Baitadi district, in the west of the country, bordering India, is understood to have died on Wednesday from a snake bite while she was…
Covid-19 caught the world unprepared; the scramble it prompted for treatments, tests, protective equipment and vaccines favoured the world’s richest nations. To avoid the same thing happening in future pandemics, a group of world leaders has proposed a pandemic treaty, which is being negotiated in a series of international meetings hosted by the World Health…
Century-old legislation in the South American country decrees up to six years in prison for those who have or provide abortions. Despite demands for change, the government shows no sign of reforming the 1926 law. Only in 2000 was it amended to allow for abortions to save the life of the pregnant woman. Venezuelans have…
As the road winds around the Mediterranean coastline on the southern edge of Turkey’s Hatay province, the outline of what seems to be hills appear on the horizon. But as they loom closer it becomes clear these are hulking mountains of rubble, so big that they have their own topography, as heavy machinery sorting through…
Andreas Mallis leans into the smoke and winces from the heat, sweat bursting from his forehead and running down his nose. The 57-year-old boat-tour operator blows on the embers of a fire and carefully turns strips of squid on a grill he hauled from his boat on to shore in the midday sun on the…
Hundreds of thousands more women will face unsafe abortions and thousands will die in pregnancy and childbirth as a result of UK aid cuts in 2023-24, Foreign Office ministers were warned in an internal assessment. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) published its programme allocations for the next two years last month, showing that…