Social & Human Affairs Bound

By Caroline Nelly Perrot For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in television reports, until she found herself locked in a living "hell" in Libya. "I had left a nightmare only to fall into hell," said the migrant from Guinea,...

A detained Moroccan journalist is "close to death" 76 days into a hunger strike, his family said as his trial resumed Tuesday in his absence.  Soulaimane Raissouni, editor-in-chief of now-defunct newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, is accused of indecent assault against...

A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still inside the Spanish enclave, the city's top official said Thursday. "We calculate that 3,000 people are still here -- both adults and minors -- of the...

Algerian human rights activist Fatiha Briki has been detained by authorities and no official reason has been given for her arrest, her family and a prisoners' rights group said Monday. Briki, a retired university teacher and a member of prisoners' rights group CNLD,...