A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail
As white powder bound for European ports floods the city of Agadez in Niger, female migrants are the most common victims in a growing addiction crisis
April 2024
The Week in Patriarchy
An Israeli bomb destroyed 4,000 embryos at a Gaza IVF centre. Where is the outrage?
Arwa Mahdawi
Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says
March 2024
Rights and freedom
Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says
Rights and freedom
‘Pimps’ use Instagram to glorify sexual violence and abuse, investigation finds
February 2024
Alleged Epstein victims file suit against FBI for failing to protect them
Rights and freedom
‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter
January 2024
Home Office U-turns on policy to restrict help for trafficking victims
Jeffrey Epstein’s brother doesn’t believe he died by suicide and wants new investigation
Maxwell’s PR adviser accused Epstein victim of ‘crying rape’ in past allegations
The Epstein associates aren’t accused of committing any crimes. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t do anything wrong
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
December 2023
Rights and freedom
New Mexico attorney general asks judge to stop Meta removing child abuse evidence from its sites
Raúl Torrez said that one day after his office filed lawsuit accusing the social media company of enabling groomers, Meta deactivated accounts set up and used by investigators
Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger
Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect
Rights and freedom
Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit
Facebook and Instagram ‘enabled adults to find, message and groom minors’ for sexual exploitation, alleges state of New Mexico legal filing
November 2023
Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme
Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John Brunst, all men in their 70s, created complicated system to try to outwit US government
October 2023
Guns and lies
California creates ‘Ebony alert’ to find missing Black women and girls
Visa system to be target of Labor crackdown after review uncovers ‘grotesque abuses’
September 2023
Sound of Freedom review – manipulative take on a harrowing topic
Championed by QAnon conspiracists, this well-intentioned thriller about child sex-trafficking is crass and full of pantomime villains
August 2023
Sound of Freedom director denies film linked to QAnon theory
