After Umm Mazen found her husband shivering in his bed and complaining of a migraine, he confessed he was addicted to painkillers and could no longer provide for the family.
In the Gaza Strip, the tiny Palestinian territory sandwiched between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean and ravaged by three wars in a decade, drug abuse is often a hidden problem.Read more
Hani Jahshan, forensic consultant and expert in violence against children, said there is a lack of studies or accurate statistics in Jordan about the exploitation of children through social media networks, noting that the absence of statistics is a result of the lack of reporting of cases for several reasons, mainly out of the victim’s fear of shame and stigmaRead more