Twelve Percent in US Juvenile Facilities Report Sexual Abuse
According to a survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics from the Department of Justice released on January 7, 2010, 12 percent of youths (3,220) held in custody in state-operated and large locally or privately operated juvenile facilities reported experiencing one or more incident of sexual victimization by another youth or, what is even more […]
UN: Blackwater’s Mercenaries Cannot Stay Unpunished
The dismissal of an indictment against 5 Blackwater employees by a United States court is causing a ripple effect and rightly provoking an international outrage. Today, a team of UN human rights independent experts called “for those behind the 2007 incident where 17 people were killed in Baghdad to be brought to justice”. Independently from […]
