Catfishing – when someone creates a fake online persona to befriend and exploit victims – is making some loud pings on the pop-culture radar. Last month, Netflix dropped the documentary Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare, the twisted tale of Kirat Assi, who was caught in a catfishing net for almost a decade with a “man” … Read more
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Tshwane says it will visit Babel restaurant in Menlyn, accused of exploiting employees and not operating in line with South African labour laws. This comes as there is a video circulating on social media about the alleged exploitation of employees who are said to be working without contracts and … Read more
It’s nauseating at first… the stench. But in a day or two, you get used to it,” says 14-year-old Vineet Nayak in hushed tones. The young boy (whose name has been changed on request) has been filling country liquor in quartersized bottles at a plant of Som Distilleries at Sehatganj village in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. … Read more
As Nigerians celebrated 25 years of unbroken democratic rule on Wednesday, Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Osun Civil Societies Coalition (OCSC) and social activists took to the streets in Osogbo, Osun State capital, to protest against hardship occasioned by the Federal Government’s economic policies. They charged President Bola Tinubu to address prevailing hunger, … Read more
Susie Hargreaves pointed out that part of the increase could be attributed to improved detection methods. IWF A recent report has brought to light a deeply unsettling trend in the realm of child exploitation, over 90 per cent of child sexual abuse imagery is self-generated. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reported the identification of self-generated … Read more
