Human Rights Articles

Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

by Alicia Tappan, Program Director, The Secret Place Home

WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING? 

The United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation.

A minor of sex trafficking is someone subjected to “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or...

Tutoring Sessions with Mahammad

by Tara Scott, AWC Central Scotland

Since moving to Edinburgh eleven years ago I have been working for a travel company, but prior to working in this industry I had taught in the United States for sixteen years. While I enjoy working in a business that can create incredible memories of Scotland for people around the world, there are times...

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 4 and final

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member and Head of Communications at FAWCO Refugee Network

Leaving Forever

Bahrain, my home, became so small to me, I was almost suffocating there. I heard once that no one leaves their home until their home becomes the mouth of a shark. One only leaves...

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 3/4

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member and Head of Communications at FAWCO Refugee Network

In my previous article I put context to the uprising in Bahrain, my home country, how it changed the course of my life and how it led me to what I have been since 2011.

The...

FAWCO Member Asma Darwish Speaks at HRC47 Side Event on Torture

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) organized an online side event in connection with the 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The event was titled The Use of Torture: Suppression of Dissidents -- The Need for Accountability to End Torture in The Middle East.

In March 2021, GCHR and partner...