Facebook has come under fire for a "barbaric use of technology" that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site.
Shocking! A child bride auctioned off on Facebook
Tag: Human rights
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
A river is now legally a person!
A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be legally recognised as a living entity and granted the same rights as a human. The sacred river will be granted all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person after a 170-year battle led by a local Maori tribe…
45 million people in servitude!
The 2016 Global Slavery Index, published by Perth-based Walk Free Foundation, estimates that 45.8 million people are subject to some form of modern slavery in the world today. This number is 10 million more than the last survey in 2014! The Index presents a ranking of 167 countries based on the proportion of the population…
