Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

By Amnesty International

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […] The post Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

Read complete article

~	US: Second Unjustified Killing by Federal Agents in Minneapolis

~	Global: US withdrawal from landmark Paris Climate Agreement threatens “a race to the bottom”

~	5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart

~	Red flowers have a ‘magic trait’ to attract birds and keep bees away

~	Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment

~	Lainie Anderson’s novels about a real pioneering policewoman invite us to play historical detective

~	Australia is turning the spotlight on financial abuse in relationships. What can NZ learn?

~	Groundhogs are lousy forecasters but valuable animal engineers – and an important food source

~	Ukraine: Zelensky upbeat on US deal – but Davos showed the US president to be an unreliable ally

~	The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television – 100 years later they’re almost invisible