Flip through Italian TV channels at any time of the day, and you’ll most definitely find a political chat-show. For a land obsessed with analysing its establishment’s dysfunctions, one particular glaring lack of these shows is Italy’s biggest elephant in the room: diversity, and a total lack thereof.
Following the #MeToo movement, I took the brave step to speak up about my own experience back home in Bangladesh despite the potential backlash. This is what I learnt from it.
Women and girls are being sold more easily than ever before as the internet becomes a key facilitator of sex trafficking. EU member states need to legislate against the online sale of women and girls and raise awareness of the prevalence of sex trafficking online.
The Czech Republic signed the Istanbul Convention in May 2016 and was due to ratify the treaty last year. However opposition comes from those who view it as a threat to the concept of the traditional family.
