When danger is imminent and you cannot scream for help – how can you protect yourself? Many of us have wondered that, but who truly knows the answer? A six-year-old girl did. She reported her own abduction to the police because she stayed alert and used the right hand signal at the right moment. The […]
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Glamour, flashbulbs and an international career – this is how numerous supposed modelling agencies lure young people who dream of breaking into the fashion business. But behind the glittering promises often lies a dangerous business model that destroys dreams and leaves those affected with high costs. Invitations reach interested parties by email, post or social
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Marriage scammers deliberately target single women and men. They shower them with compliments and maintain contact. The victims long for affection, attention, and love; they are blinded by the offenders’ promises, and only after the wedding – or after the goals have been achieved – do the scammers show their true colors. The desire to
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Sean John Combs, better known by his pseudonyms “P. Diddy” or “Puff Daddy”, is an American rapper, music producer and entrepreneur. Now 55 years old, Combs became one of the most successful musicians in the world in the 1990s with songs such as I’ll Be Missing You and Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down. In 2006, Time magazine even
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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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