Rising Rates of FGM in Ireland

Images from Ogilvy and Mather London’s “It Happens Here” anti-FGM ad campaign. 6th February 2020 marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. Despite Female genital mutilation being illegal in the European Union, as well as being...

The Ugandan Human Trafficking Epidemic

Image from Risk Management Magazine. Last week 96 Ugandan girls aged between 14 and 18 were stopped at Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Kenya while trying to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates. The girls were intercepted by Kenyan authorities after a...

China’s Unbelievable Cruelty

An ethnic Uighur woman holding her child in a shop in Kashgar, in China’s far western Xinjiang province. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images While those in the West stare at their phones or fret about a few extra pounds gained over the holidays, there is torture and...

30 October 2019: Where do we go from here?

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the first few lines of “You Must Love Me” from the film Evita stuck in my head. Eva Perón (played by Madonna) meant something very different when she sang the opening lines: Where do we go from here? This...

Letter from the Editor LIX

Dear Reader, In this month’s paper, we once again run the gamut of articles. Child marriage and rape, human trafficking, child homelessness, child exploitation. But girls have also thrown touchdowns in American Football (a sport they don’t normally get to...

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