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National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – January 11

Seema Naidoo People are familiar of the slave trade many years ago but not many are aware that slavery to this day exists and in a much larger scale, whereby over 30 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. Every year thousands more people are exploited by criminals, mainly women and children. Almost every country […]

Annual message from Seema Naidoo, Founder and CEO of the Hope to Heal Foundation

2020, A year that will go down in history, the COVID-19 Pandemic gripped the world and stopped it in its track. The cruelty of the global pandemic seems limitless, whereby so many lives are affected. To contain the spread of the virus State Leaders had to bring countries under lockdown.  Businesses hard hit by the […]

World Aids Day 2020

Ms. Seema Naidoo Founder & CEO Hope to Heal Foundation World AIDS Day was the first global health day, held for the first time in 1988. Annually on the 1st December each year people globally have the opportunity to unite in the fight against HIV and to show their support for people living with HIV […]

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls

Ms. Seema Naidoo Women and Girls have the right to Freedom of Life, Free from violence and abuse We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence, abuse, and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is […]

US Marshals find 27 missing children in Virginia

The Justice Department building in Washington, DC. (CNN)A rescue operation in Virginia resulted in the recovery of 27 missing children, according to the US Department of Justice.Deputy US Marshals led the five-day effort dubbed “Operation Find Our Children.” They collaborated with the agency’s Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state […]

Long-term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’, says WHO chief

“Although we’re still learning about the virus, what’s clear is that this is not just a virus that kills people.  To a significant number of people, this virus poses a range of serious long-term effects,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva on Friday during the UN agency’s latest virtual press conference.  The situation also underscores […]

Epstein donations force resignation at international peace organization

Terje Rød-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat, has resigned as CEO of the International Peace Institute. (CNN)The president of an international think tank has resigned following revelations that he accepted a loan from accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and secured $650,000 in donations from foundations linked to Epstein for the peace organization.The International Peace Institute, based across the […]