Creator
Annie Kelly
Annie Kelly works from UK. Journalist and editor at The Guardian covering modern slavery, human rights and international development. Views my own. email me at Annie.kelly@theguardian.com Annie Kelly has over 2294 followers on Twitter.
Modern day slavery: ‘The girls trust the traffickers more than anyone’
For nearly three decades, a thriving sex-trafficking industry has been operating between Nigeria and Italy. Can this woman help break the chain?
‘Juju curse’ binds trafficked women into sex slavery
Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.
Italy says Berlin terror suspect killed in Milan by police
German authorities, after temporarily detaining another suspect, said they believed Amri drove the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market
Trafficked to Turin: the Nigerian women forced into sex work abroad in Italy
Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy annually by the promise of a new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade.
Recalcitrant Mauritania clings to its slave culture
Caste-based slavery deeply rooted in Mauretanian society with estimates of 156 000 people trapped
Tourists trigger a polar crisis
Oil spills, shipwrecks, dumped waste, an ill-advised nuclear reactor — human interaction in Antarctica has a history of pushing the last great wilderness to the edge of…
Neutrality in jeopardy
For more than a century, the emblem of a red cross on a white background has saved the lives of people in war zones across the globe. It has also acted as a badge of safety for…