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JOHANNESBURG. Soldiers implicated in the death of Collins Khosa have been exonerated by an internal South African National Defence Force investigation, which found that the altercation was not what caused his death “when taking into account the post mortem report” ...

JOHANNESBURG. There will be no carrying of groceries bags, taking photos or reacting to insults from the public for soldiers deployed to enforce national lockdown regulations, based on a new code of conduct issued by the South African National Defence ...

We have successfully solved the problem of getting the paperwork done to patriate a boy to his mother in Switzerland. His grandmother, and guardian, contacted us through an email requesting our help. In her words: "We have our grandson, 11 ...

JOHANNESBURG. An appeal against the Khosa judgment on police brutality seems imminent after Police Minister Bheki Cele tried to do a deal with the Khosa family through their lawyers — asking them to abandon a crucial part of the court ...

SINGAPORE is facing criticism from Human Rights Watch after the country's Supreme Court handed out a death sentence via video-conferencing platform Zoom. According to reports, a Malaysian drug trafficker named Punithan Genasan was sentenced to death on May 15 after ...

MANENBERG, Cape Town. Two Manenberg police officers appeared in the dock at Athlone Magistrates’ Court on Monday for allegedly kidnapping and extorting R5 000 from a Bangladeshi businessman. The two sergeants were arrested at Manenberg Police Station on Sunday afternoon ...

ALEXANDRA, Gauteng. In another unfortunate development, a South African man died after he was sjamboked to death, allegedly by soldiers, for drinking beer in a private yard. The Sunday Independent reports that the 40-year-old man was assaulted and killed allegedly ...

JOHANNESBURG. The noose is tightening around the police officers and soldiers who were at the scene when Alexandra residents Collins Khosa and his family were beaten up on Good Friday. Khosa succumbed to his injuries and died in the arms ...

RWANDA.  Kampala - Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800 000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice ministry said. The 84-year-old, who ...

UKRAINE, Russia neighbor. At the Venice Hotel in Kyiv, 51 newborn babies born to surrogate mothers are stranded because their adoptive parents are not allowed to enter the country. The infants were born as countries around the world faced strict travel ...

KWADUKUZA, South Africa. AfriForum has volunteered to represent the 11 Chaka’s Rock residents arrested on Sunday morning for allegedly violating lockdown regulations. Head of AfriForum’s private prosecution unit advocate Gerrie Nel said they were investigating the matter to establish the ...

ALEXANDRA, Gauteng. Khosa was allegedly beaten to death by members of the army when they saw half a glass of alcohol in his yard in Alexandra. The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered absolute rights such as those to ...

There are rumblings of war on the Cape Flats after alleged 28s gang boss Ernie "Lastig" Solomon was targeted in a hit. On Tuesday, the day after Solomon was injured in Hawston, near Hermanus, two men were shot in the ...

13 MAY 2020. Meet Baby A, the newest member of the Unchain our Children family!!! Baby A was born in the early morning hours of 13.05.2020. Unchain our Children was notified @ 02:22 of the birth. An ambulance was called and ...

WORLDWIDE. At least 10 tonnes of Class A drugs have been seized worldwide since March as gangs try to move bigger quantities during the corona virus pandemic. The National Crime Agency (NCA) claimed that global lockdowns have put organised crime groups and drug ...

SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa’s anti-human trafficking hotline received a total of 588 calls at the end of March, compared to the 245 calls during the same period last year. A21, a global organisation dedicated to combating human trafficking, said the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa. The US government has criticised South Africa for accepting the assistance of Cuban doctors to fight Covid-19 in the country, accusing Cuba of profiting from human trafficking. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at ...

CANBERRA, Australia. Cardinal George Pell, who was accused of sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s, knew about child abuse cases taking place in the Archdiocese of Ballarat in 1970s and 1980s, according to a royal commission report tabled on ...

PLYMOUTH, Southwest England. Zoom on Sunday issued a statement over the incident where a hacker streamed child sex footage when more than 60 children were attending a virtual fitness class on the platform in Plymouth in southwest England. Zoom in its ...

KLERKSDORP, South Africa. African National Congress ward councilor appeared briefly in the Klerksdorp Magistrate Court today – Tuesday. Paki Mqikela appeared in court on charges of statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. According to the statement released by the ANC ...

KAMPALA, Uganda. Four victims of child prostitution have been rescued by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. The victims from Rukungiri and Iganga were handed over to KCCA by well-wishers. According to the KCCA Director of Gender and Community Services and Production ...

MEXICO CITY — Organized crime is mutating in Mexico as gangs who steal oil and sell drugs try a lucrative new line of work trafficking people, according to a top official fighting money laundering. Santiago Nieto, head of Mexico’s financial ...

PHUTEK PATONG. 2 Cambodian women and 1 man have been arrested in Phuket’s Patong municipality as part of a human trafficking ring where children were routinely beaten with wire hangers if they failed to meet their 3000 baht per day ...

KWAZULU-NATAL. A KwaZulu-Natal man has been sentenced to three life terms for kidnapping and raping children over a 14-year period. In a statement issued on Sunday, police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala said Phelelani Mazibuko, 44, was sentenced in the Estcourt Regional ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to take action after a wave of gender-based violence, robbery and vandalism across the country. Since a nationwide lockdown was announced on March 27 in a bid to curtail the spread of the coronavirus ...

CAPE TOWN. Hanover Park, a depressing neighbourhood of drab buildings and unemployed young men, is one island in a violent gangland archipelago that stretches across South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town, where even the deployment of the army has failed to stop ...

RUSTENBURG.  A young mother with her two children were rescued from a violent and abusive situation by the intervention of members of Unchain our Children / SACCW Brits, Rustenburg and the SAPS Rustenburg. The mother and two young children are ...

Belgian authorities working in partnership with Europol have convicted four suspects as part of an ongoing international probe into a paedophile ring that abused children just a few months old. Federal police in Belgium said on Tuesday that a court ...

ROSSLYN, Pretoria North. On 1 April 2020, information was received regarding people that are allegedly locked in a factory at a premise in the industrial area of Pretoria North. According to the information the people are locked in at the premises, ...

BROOKLYN, New York. Sex trafficking was a family affair for the Melendez-Rojas brothers — and now they may spend the rest of their lives together in prison. Mexican nationals Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas, 43, Rosalio Melendez-Rojas, 38, Jose Miguel Melendez-Rojas, 43 ...

SEATTLE, Washington — The significant power vacuum that resulted from the overthrow of Gaddafi plunged the country into an era of instability and lawlessness. The establishment of militias and gangs across the country developed a network of human trafficking and ...

6 March 2020. Some of the biggest hotel companies in the world are named in dozens of lawsuits of ignoring clear signs of human trafficking. More than 40 federal suits claim that hotel companies an franchises profitted from sex-trafficking operations, ...

26 March 2020. The Dutch government must do more to stop Vietnamese children disappearing from special accommodation for refugee children without parents, Herman Bolhaar, the national rapporteur on human trafficking, said on Thursday. New research shows 97% of the children ...

Sunday, 22 March 2020. The Metro Task Team and the Tactical K9 Africa Branch, Rural Safety responded swiftly to an anonymous tip. An elderly couple have locked their mentally challenged daughter in an outdoor toilet for unknown periods of time ...

Wednesday, 18 March 2020. An operational team member of Unchain our Children was contacted about parents living in Brits that were using drugs and neglecting their children. It has been, allegedly, going on for quite some time. Unchain Our Children ...

On 19 March 2020, three brothers were rescued in Pretoria North in an intervention and taken to a place of safety. The most beautiful three boys grew up in awful circumstances, which include drug and alcohol abuse, brothels, neglect, hunger ...

17 March 2020. The appeal court in French Polynesia has upheld the prison sentence of three people convicted over a racket involving child prostitution and drug trafficking. The central figure in the affair, Sabine Boiron, remains sentenced to seven years in ...

Friday the 13th March 2020. It was a joint operation between the S.A.P.S members of Garsfontien, CI and Metro Pretoria along with assistance from Unchain Our Children. A house in the suburb of Garsfontien was raided by the members mentioned ...

Yesterday, 13 March 2020, Unchain Our Children intervened in yet another tragic drug story in Pretoria where the family reached a point where the little baby had to be taken from her parents to be placed in a place of ...

12 March 2020. A Romanian human trafficking and prostitution network that used the “lover boy” method to entrap young women before forcing them into sex work has been broken up a coalition of European law enforcement agencies. The lover boy method, ...