Anya has a lot on her mind. In a small, sparsely-furnished room, she is trying to get her two boys, aged four and seven, to take their afternoon nap. It is not the easiest of tasks at the best of times, and is even more difficult in her temporary home – a room in a […]

Last winter, an Egyptian woman was assaulted by a crowd of men in the city of Alexandria. In video footage of the incident, posted on the internet, she is hauled over men’s shoulders and dragged along the ground, her screams barely audible over the shouts of the mob. It is hard to tell who is […]

The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism is an industry-driven initiative with the mission to provide awareness, tools and support to the tourism industry to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. Read more: The Code

Christina Kaili, Project Coordinator at the Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies (MIGS), says a new trend has appeared in human trafficking since 2010, called “marriages of convenience”. In these cases, women, mainly from European countries, come to Cyprus under false promises of a better life, but the traffickers force them, through violence and threats, or […]