While suicide was formally removed from Canada’s criminal code in 1972, it is still considered illegal today to aid another person in ending his or her own life through euthanasia. Contested in the legal and medical sectors around the world, euthanasia has gained widespread attention as it pushes the envelope on what can legally be … Continue reading
Since 2004, hundreds of thousands of Eritreans have fled their home country to escape government repression. Yet increasingly, in the past three years, they have found themselves subject to human trafficking and put in circumstances worse than those they had left behind. According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW), thousands of Eritreans have fled to … Continue reading
Food insecurity has been a persistent problem in the transition zone from the Saharan Desert to the African Savanna, commonly known as the Sahel region, since the food crisis in 2005. This is not only a problem of environmental circumstances due to droughts or destructive land use practices, but also an issue pointing to shortcomings … Continue reading
A doctor in rural Fuping County in China’s Shaanxi Province has received a suspended death sentence for selling seven infants into child-trafficking. The sentencing court has announced that while working as an obstetrician at the Fuping Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, the doctor, Zhang Shuxia “fabricate[d] reports about the infants, saying they had suffered from … Continue reading
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