Since 2022, Cambodia has been regarded as the epicenter of a growing human rights crisis linked to a global phenomenon most people only know superficially: spam calls, fraudulent SMS, or phishing emails. What is often dismissed as an everyday nuisance has a dark flip side. Behind many of these digital scams stand highly organized networks […]
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Gaslighting refers to a type of psychological manipulation in which victims` reality is distorted to such an extent that they can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion. This kind of psychological abuse takes its name from the play “Gaslight” by Patrick Hamilton, from 1938. The play is about a man who tortures his wife with
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The global fight against human trafficking and modern slavery requires leading personalities whose expert knowledge and perspectives are based on their own experience: survivors themselves. Their courage, resilience and deep insights are crucial if effective guidelines and programmes are to be developed. Despite their expert knowledge and dedication, however, “survivor leaders” and the organisations led
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They leave their homeland to earn money for their families, and have no idea they are to be exploited, abused and discriminated against in their new place of residence and work. In Saudi Arabia, unfortunately, it is anything but a one-off for domestic workers from Kenya to be suffering such a fate. Amnesty International is
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Millions of people around the world absolutely adore K-Pop. Groups such as BTS, Blackpink and Twice fill entire arenas in record time and regularly top the international charts. But what do things actually look like behind the scenes? Is the life led by the idols really quite so glamorous as it first seems? What actually is “K-Pop”? K-Pop (short
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Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, Attack on Titan and Pokémon – the animé industry today is bigger than ever before. Once merely the reserve of a niche subculture, the Japanese cartoon films and series evolved long ago developed to become a global market worth billions. In 2023 alone, their value was estimated at approximately 21 billion US dollars. In
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Words shape our reality. They influence how we perceive problems, set priorities and develop solutions. Language has immense power, especially in the sensitive area of child protection. It can educate, protect and heal – or it can trivialise, stigmatise and hurt. The conscious choice of our words and phrases is therefore not only a question
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Just imagine your partner decided what you should eat. That you had more and more food placed in front of you every single day – often until you could hardly move any longer. And that you went along with it. For reasons of love, desire, loneliness, or simply a wish to finally be wanted. That’s
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How young women are forced into prostitution by men offering apparently loving relationships. The so-called “loverboy method” is a form of human trafficking which enables offenders to deliberately target several young women at once – usually via social media and dating apps. They shower the women with compliments and promises to bind them to them
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A major success for international cooperation: investigative authorities from around 30 countries have dismantled a huge paedophile network with almost two million users. The scale of the case is shocking – the Kidflix platform worked in a similar way to well-known streaming services, but with horrific content. It offered videos on the dark web that
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