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A 12-year-old Nigerian boy travelling by himself and rescued off the coast of Libya this month told rescuers a dramatic tale of being kidnapped and taken away from his mother, thrown onto trucks, locked in homes and eventually put on a boat on a “big river.” His rescuers believe there is much more to his story, that he was being trafficked for eventual child prostitution or other forms of exploitation in Europe  :   10,000 migrant children lost amid refugee crisis in Europe Maka was rescued on Sept. 10 by a ship run by the non-profit organization Save the Children. “He seemed to be travelling on his own and we verified that pretty quickly,” Gemma Parkin, a spokeswoman for Save the Children who interviewed him on the rescue ship, said. “Maka’s story was incredibly worrying and also his version of events may not even be the truth of the matter,” she said. “He had quite a naive view of what had happened to him.” READ MORE:  Photo of drowned baby’s lifeless bo...

Canada was ranked No. 19, even though the United Nations Development Program ranks our country ninth in the Human Development Index. A report called “Every Last Girl,” released for International Day of the Girl cites a low number of women in parliament and a relatively high adolescent fertility rate as reasons for the discrepancy. The report is aiming to list the “root causes of girls’ exclusion and disempowerment” in order to allow them to reach their full potential. Sweden has the best record, followed by its neighbours Finland and Norway. “The worst places to be a girl are amongst the poorest in the world,” the report states, but the opposite doesn’t seem to be true. With one of the biggest economies, one could expect the United States to be high on the list, but it was ranked only 32nd, beat out by countries like Kazakhstan and Algeria. The report cites a high maternal mortality rate when compared to other developed countries; it says 14 of every 100,000 w...

wake up muslims please and start biggest protest again  auung san suu kyi   please stop killing muslims in burma stop killing children stop killing women. Three days before the massacre, Hossein said about 90 soldiers ordered the village’s several hundred residents to an area east of the settlement, a place locals call “the sands” for its infertile ground. “Their leader had two stars on his shoulder. He told us: ‘Rumours are being spread around by people in the village that soldiers have been killing people in Rakhine. But you should all keep farming and fishing. The one thing we ask is that if you see soldiers, you don’t run away. If you run, we will shoot.’ “After the speech, the soldiers went from house to house. They were with [local Rakhine Buddhists] and took everything they could find that was valuable: gold, cash, clothes, potatoes and rice. They smashed up houses of three or four people they said had been spreading rumours. They were looking for fight...