Buchi Emecheta – campaigner against child slavery
Today we celebrate what would have been Mama Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta’s OBE 75th. She was of Nigeria’s novelist who migrated to the UK, where her themes were around child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education #BuchiEmecheta #NdiIgbo pic.twitter.com/fIZQ9FMl9O — Sudan ? (@Florence_Adaobi) July 21, 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchi_Emecheta FlorenceContinue Reading
#Stolen #Boys:#Sexual #Slavery #Afghanistan
Kabul (AFP) – Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy. Jawed was kidnapped by a former jihadi commander in Shomali, north ofContinue Reading
What all victims have in common is a fear of reaction of community
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51196#.VYh_aqPcp1Q Meanwhile, UN investigator Rabiaa el-Gharani compared the “much higher and horrifying” level of violence in Iraq, citing the attacks on different villages like the one last August on a large group of Yazidi women, to the more “individual cases” of rape and sexual violence reported in Syria at check-points,Continue Reading