Browsing: Demands

Non-profit organisation (NGO) Women and Men Against Child Abuse is calling for the swift sentencing of convicted child sex offender Iain Ware, reports EWN. This follows the postponement of his pre-sentencing trial in the Wynberg Magistrates’ Court. The 86-year-old, who was convicted in March of indecently assaulting a Grade 5 pupil at Rondebosch Boys’ Primary…

The Taliban’s latest decree has intensified alarm over the worsening treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan, because it appears to move discrimination from the realm of practice into the realm of formal law. By making child marriage easier to sustain and much harder to contest, the measure strengthens concerns that the regime is not…