Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealedIt was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui’s* door and threatened to send her to p…
Digital gender gap ‘keeping women offline’ and costing billions, finds report
Men 50% more likely to be online than women in least developed countries, hampering economies and fuelling gender inequalityA failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (£730bn) over the past decade and…
Big pharma fuelling human rights crisis over Covid vaccine inequity – Amnesty
Six companies warned not to put profit before lives as report shows less than 1% of almost 6bn doses have gone to low-income countriesAmnesty International has accused six pharmaceutical companies that have developed Covid-19 vaccines of fuelling a glo…
Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’
Droughts and floods forcing workers from rural areas, leading to their exploitation in cities, report warnsMillions of people forced to leave their homes because of severe drought and powerful cyclones are at risk of modern slavery and human traffickin…
‘Collective strength’: the LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda
Kidnapped by Lord’s Resistance Army rebels as a girl, Victoria Nyanjura has pushed through major reforms for victims of abduction and rapeWhen Victoria Nyanjura was abducted from her Catholic boarding school in northern Uganda by members of the Lord’s …