Released on Friday, coinciding with International Women’s Day, the data compiled by UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows that the pace of progress against FGM remains slow and woefully off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the practice by 2030 (SDG 5, target 5.3). The global pace of decline worldwide would need to…
Pramila Patten added in a press release issued along with the report, that there are also reasonable grounds to believe that such violence, which includes other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, may be continuing against those still being held by Hamas and other extremists in the Gaza Strip. The report from her Office, arose from…
In Bulandshahr district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, two persons were arrested for torturing a Muslim laborer by tying him to a tree for alleged theft. In this regard, Shakeel, the father of a Muslim laborer named Sahil, who was tortured, said that his son was not only tortured on a false charge,…
