Eight boys have been rescued from a Chinese-owned factory in the small town of Nigel in South Africa's Gauteng province. Social workers from the Department of Social Development in the province are in the process of repatriating the children. The victims, aged between 13 and 17, are part of a...
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Chinese mining company accused of child sexual exploitation and labor violations
Workers from the company Haiyu Mozambique Mining, which mines ilminite and zircon in the town of Mponha, Inshaque Island, Moma district, Nampula province, denounce the sexual exploitation of minors, mistreatment and rape in the workplace. In a complaint to which we have had access, the workers say that, last year, Chinese employers used...
Man arrested with more than a ton of child pornography
A man was arrested in Ocala, in the US state of Florida, after the authorities seized more than 220,000 printed images of child pornography from his home, in boxes weighing 1,180 kilos. The suspect kept the photographic material in boxes or stacked in his bedroom. The agents also seized a printer "with...
Mozambique and Angola among 12 African countries that promise to end childhood AIDS by 2030
The governments of Mozambique and Angola, along with ten other African countries, today pledged to eradicate AIDS in children by 2030 through the implementation of treatment, prevention and testing programs for the disease. According to the EFE news agency, quoted by Lusa, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya,...