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CHINA: North Korean women escaping their homeland are victims of Chinese sexual abuse

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

CHINA: North Korean women as victims of Chinese sexual abuse By Sloane Thor, Edited by Diletta De Luca HRNK (18.09.2025) – In recent years, dozens and hundreds of North Koreans have escaped their homeland and made the perilous passage across the Tumen River into...

DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city By Joost Bastmeijer, Saskia Houttuin and Mark Townsend The Guardian...

ECHR/FRANCE: French divorcee wins appeal in case over refusing husband sex

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

ECHR/FRANCE: French divorcee wins appeal in case over refusing husband sex By Rachel Hagan BBC News (23.01.2025) – A French woman who stopped having sex with her husband has won a ruling from Europe’s highest human rights court, which has stated she should...

CANADA: Jehovah’s Witnesses: No systemic problem of child abuse

Freedom of Religion and Belief

Ontario Superior Court of Justice states Jehovah’s Witnesses have no “systemic” problem of child sexual abuse A certification motion for a class actions lawsuit making the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization liable for individual members’ abuses was rejected.   by...

ETHIOPIA: The UN needs to investigate massacres of civilians in war and non-war zones

Human Rights in the World

ETHIOPIA: The UN needs to investigate massacres of civilians in war and no-war zones By Willy Fautre The European Times (16.02.2022) – https://bit.ly/3gR8iZ3 – An independent UN inquiry commission needs to investigate the innumerable killings of civilians...
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