Police in Nigeria’s capital have banned all protests planned in support of the more than 200 girls kidnapped in April.
Commissioner Joseph Mbu said the proliferation of such protests “is now posing a serious security threat” to those living around, and driving through, demonstration sites in the capital city of Abuja.
“I cannot fold my hands and watch this lawlessness,” he said in a statement Monday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/02/world/africa/nigeria-protests-ban/index.html
A woman who was 15 when she disappeared 10 years ago from her California home has come forward to police
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/california-kidnap-victim-rescued-10-years
Women are being trafficked to Australia and forced into a life of slavery under the partner migration program, a new report by the Institute of Criminology has revealed.
Black girls in the U.S. are too often left out of the public outcry against sexual exploitation, and instead are presented as “prostitutes” who “choose” to participate in the sex trade. Latent in our willingness to cast them as willing participants in this underground economy are racialized gender stereotypes about the hyper-sexualization of Black girls—a myth that was historically used to justify the rape of enslaved Black females, and which has since morphed into a stereotype about “fast” Black girls that renders them vulnerable to multiple forms of abuse.
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/black-girls-human-trafficking-993#ixzz32gItBCvk
Cis Privilege 