Forced labour is any work or services which people are forced to do against their will under the threat of some form punishment. Almost all slavery practices, including trafficking in people and bonded labour, contain some element of forced labour.
Read moreBonded labour – or debt bondage – is probably the least known form of slavery today, and yet it is the most widely used method of enslaving people. In South Asia it is rooted in the caste system and flourishes
Read moreMillions of men, women and children around the world are forced to lead lives as slaves. Although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or
Read moreWhile the overall rate of HIV in Kyrgyzstan is low, it is rising, and the country is now among the top seven countries in the world for rapidly increasing HIV rates.
Read moreCitizens are regularly threatened by police, or even taken in and given a formal warning for small immaterial details of their lives which are seen as moral transgressions. Listening to the ‘wrong’ kind of music, wearing unapproved clothing, women not
Read moreA report by the U.N.’s World Health Organization notes that alcohol abuse could be Mongolia’s biggest stumbling block to economic and social progress. A 2006 survey carried out by Mongolia’s Ministry of Health and WHO found that 22 percent of
Read moreIn the midst of the ravages of war, another problem is eating away at society in Afghanistan, drug addiction. Whereas once it was mostly a producer of drugs, now there is a growing and disturbing trend of consumers of drugs.
Read moreRecently published research shows that 1 in 4 men in Asia say they have participated in rape, and 1 in 25 have participated in gang rape. Men say they start raping early, often in their teenage years and are frequently
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