Malaysian couple jailed for starving maid to death
A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced a couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbors.
A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced a couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbors.
South Africa on Thursday opened a murder investigation into the death of a Mozambican taxi driver who was filmed being dragged by a police van through the streets, in a case that has sparked widespread outrage.
A bill to compensate abuse victims of martial law with a P10-billion fund is attracting scammers yet again.
Rights campaigners voiced outrage on Sunday over a 13-year-old Afghan boy jailed for having sex with two adult men, urging the Western-backed Kabul government to release him and punish his abusers.
Child victims of sex assaults in India often find themselves humiliated by the police and mistreated by doctors when they pluck up the courage to report abuse, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
A day after he beat up his pregnant ex-live-in partner with a hammer and still-warm flat iron, doused her in gasoline and then set her on fire, a 38-year-old mechanic was picked up by the Quezon City police on Tuesday in Baliwag, Bulacan, where he had gone into hiding.
US sporting goods giant Nike said Tuesday it was investigating claims by labor activists that its manufacturers in Indonesia were trying to evade paying its workers the minimum wage.
A Quezon City judge has given provisional liberty to one of the two employers of Bonita Baran, the help who was allegedly maltreated for more than a year until she went blind in one eye.
The number of cases of violence against women in the city has more than doubled in six years, which women’s groups said is a sign that the abuse of women here has not eased.
The maid who has accused her employers of maltreating her until she went blind said the couple she served conspired to lock her up in their home for close to three years.
A dog so mangled that part of its snout hung under its jaw when it was found had been operated on and is now recovering, its case serving as an example of man’s capacity for brutality and kindness and how animals are often at the receiving end of these.
Despite her repeated pleas, Bonita Baran was allowed by her employers to leave for her home province of Catanduanes only after she went blind because of alleged abuses that went on for three years.
It was a birthday present she never forgot: Being locked for 15 hours inside a “bodega” or storage room by her employers who wanted to keep her away from the prying eyes of house guests.
