Trafficking, sexual violence, and organ theft
By Ellie Finkelstein, Freedom United
| July 14th, 2024News Digest |
| OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
| Human trafficking Unspeakable dangers for migrants crossing the Sahara A chilling United Nations report reveals the extreme dangers faced by migrants on their journey to Europe, with the Sahara Desert emerging as twice as deadly as the well-known perils of the Mediterranean Sea. This harrowing passage subjects migrants to endure the severe risks of enslavement, organ harvesting, and rampant sexual violence, stressing an urgent yet overlooked humanitarian crisis that demands immediate global action. Read more… |
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| Human trafficking U.N. rights chief urges end to E.U.’s support for Libyan Coast GuardU.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights decries the “horrific trafficking, torture, forced labor, extortion, and starvation” faced by migrants intercepted and returned to Libya. In a powerful address to the Human Rights Council, he condemned the E.U.’s complicity in this “unconscionable suffering,” calling on Europe to end this barbaric arrangement and uphold its international duty to save lives. Read more… |
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| Detained survivors Shocking conditions at U.K. immigrant removal center reveal “contempt for human life” An incriminating report exposes the shocking conditions at the Harmondsworth immigration removal center near Heathrow Airport, described by inspectors as the worst they had ever seen. Among the detainees, including survivors of sex trafficking and forced labor, nearly half reported feeling suicidal, with conditions so dire that inspectors declared it “nothing short of a national emergency.” Read more… |
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