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Broken things are scattered shards. Cracks, chips and missing pieces. Loss. Void of its shape and form.  It doesn’t represent the beauty it once was admired for.  This is true of porcelain, ceramic or treasured Lalique glass, but equally and ...

The third of four accusers took the stand late Tuesday morning in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. She began her testimony by briefly recounting a difficult childhood where she dropped out of middle school and became addicted to cocaine and pain pills ...

A top Sony executive has been fired after he was allegedly caught in an amateur pedophilia sting operation posted on YouTube. George Cacioppo — the senior vice president from the team behind PlayStation — allegedly tried to arrange a meeting ...

AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit achieves victory for victim of sexual abuse at the start of 16 days of activism. AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit welcomes certain developments in, but remains concerned about the handling of cases of violence against children in ...

A homeless person tells the story of being homeless in South Africa: In 1994 in South Africa we had our first democratic vote and then the Constitution. Today it’s 2021. Nothing has changed for the best, it became worse. Today ...

A woman testifying under the pseudonym “Kate” took the stand Monday morning after Judge Alison Nathan instructed jurors that she was not a victim of the crimes charged in the indictment. The witness was above the age of consent when ...

A three-year investigation has concluded with police in Colombia arresting six individuals believed to be behind the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Colombian and Venezuelan women. The criminal group was first identified in 2018 by Panama’s Human Trafficking and Smuggling ...

The court heard that the crime group he was part of initially smuggled migrants from Belgium and the Netherlands across the channel in large trucks, but diversified into using inflatable dinghies. A gang leader who boasted of smuggling dozens of ...

From November 8-12, Europol supported large-scale international action against trafficking in human beings. 29 countries, led by Austria and Romania, took part in the action days, which were coordinated by Europol and Frontex. The activities saw more than 14,000 law ...

A Montreal man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for bringing an eight-year-old girl from Africa to Canada and sexually exploiting her over a three-year period. Court documents state Sylvain Villemaire, a former school counsellor, paid the girl’s ...

A green massage table seized from Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach estate has been carried into a Manhattan federal courtroom, where British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial for her alleged role in the sex abuse of girls. Prosecutors said many ...

News of a murder or gang fight in Hanover Park, Cape Town, barely breaks the surface of public awareness outside the area. But meticulously recorded statistics by an NGO show a community living in a veritable war zone. There are ...

Alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack will file opposing affidavits in his bid for bail. The possibility cannot be excluded that he might adduce new evidence, which will require a response from the other accused. It is against this backdrop that ...

Acting judge Avinash Govindjee dismissed the application with costs after delivering a 38-minute judgment. The Border Deep Sea Angling Association and Kei Mouth Ski Boat Club together with human rights law agency Natural Justice and environmental organisation Greenpeace said the ...

Juan Alessi, the Palm Beach house manager, took the stand for the prosecution on the fourth day of Maxwell’s trial in Manhattan federal court. He said he repeatedly drove two girls who appeared to be 14 or 15 to Epstein’s ...

An 11th hour attempt has been launched to try to halt plans by Shell to explore for oil in vital whale breeding grounds along the Wild Coast of eastern South Africa. Campaigners filed an urgent legal challenge against the seismic ...

CAPE TOWN - In recognition of the fact that many women and children face the scourge of violence and are taken advantage of every day of the year and not just over the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based ...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense attorneys sought Wednesday to undermine a key accuser’s allegation that the British socialite helped US financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse the woman for years, starting when she was 14. The trial witness, who has said she’s using ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The indictment is charging two dozen people with conducting, what is being described as a “modern-day slavery” scheme, a human smuggling and labor trafficking operation involving Mexican and Central American workers. The newly unsealed indictment ...

The first accuser in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has said she had repeated sexual contact with Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 years old - and that the British socialite was there when it happened. The woman, known ...

Bodies hanging from Mexico overpasses: Mexico's notorious drug cartels appear to have resumed some of its bloodiest tactics, after nine half-naked and tortured bodies recently were found hanging from a bridge on a federal highway in the Mexican state of ...

Discover. Uncover. Reveal. This is pretty much the Modus Operandi of Unchain Our Children. Not only true when we are investigating cases reported to us, but also when we have the privilege to provide in the needs of children at ...

Sixteen months after FBI agents swooped in on her remote hideaway to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell on sex abuse charges, the trial of the British socialite is beginning in New York. Ms Maxwell is on trial in Manhattan federal court for ...

Ten missing children have been found after Ohio authorities conducted the state's largest anti-human-trafficking operation. The sting, titled Operation Ohio Knows, resulted in the arrests of 161 people looking to buy sex. Among those apprehended were a home improvement contractor, ...

Cocaine is a very addictive illegal stimulant that comes from the leaves of the coca plant, also called Erythroxylum coca, a shrub native to South America. This illegal drug—which can be snorted, smoked, or dissolved and injected into a vein—speeds ...

The global market for illegal drugs brings in more than $600 billion a year to its dealers, while some 21 million people worldwide are presently victims of trafficking for sex and labor. All three of these illegal markets are expanding ...

A former teacher and a pastor were among the 125 suspects arrested following an undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced the results of a 20-day undercover operation, entitled "Operation Round-Up" where "undercover detectives targeted ...

A Jeffrey Epstein accuser has been given permission to tell the Ghislaine Maxwell trial of a "repugnant" sex act dating back to when she was 17. A judge ruled her evidence could be given even though she was over the ...

Bangladesh has urged the United Nations (UN) to address the root causes of human trafficking. "We must address the root causes of trafficking driven by multiple factors including climate vulnerability, conflict and displacement," said Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the UN ...

A Testimony of Unchain Teamwork The fast and efficient action of UOC’s operatives Team resulted in the rescue of another severely neglected baby that was brought to safety within a matter of two hours yesterday. From chaos to comfort, this ...

Unchain Our Children was the first contact for a 12-year-old girl to report the horrific sexual molestation her father subjected her and her 4-year-old sibling to.  She chose to reach out to protect her younger sister. Tragically, her mother, who ...

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The Story The ready-made British resistance. After the disastrous campaign in France in 1940, the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force and the Free French Forces found themselves critically short of vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment. This led to the ...

Second World War Two bombers. The Lancaster is probably the most famous of all the bombers of the Second World War. According to Capt. Donald Macintosh (ex-Second-World-War bomber pilot and author) it was a lot smoother to fly than the ...

WW2 German Ace escorts crippled B-17 home. Warfare is not really a place for humanity, ethics and morals, but the Christmas Truce of WWII was a true example of a moment of humanity. The heroic actions of a German Luftwaffe ...

This is the story of a marine carrying a aircraft machine gun one of Japan's Volcano Islands called Iwo Jima. He took out over twenty Japanese troops and saved a number of his fellow Marines who had been wounded in ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. When Pearl Harbor was hit in a surprise attack at dawn, in 1941, the scattered American forces were pinned down by the charging Japanese Zero planes. The Legend The legend says that during the ...

5th Aug 2020, 13:49 MAXWELL'S DAILY PRISON ORDEAL Ghislaine Maxwell will be going through a “crushing experience” at a hellhole jail where inmates are out to do her harm, its ex-warden revealed. She is being held at the Metropolitan Detention ...

Unchain Our Children’s case manager deals with some of the most atrocious situations children find themselves in. The challenge never changes, it always beckons a speedy and effective solution where hopelessness are changed into happy endings. Such is the story ...

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