Around the world, people who leave the faith of Islam face state persecution, imprisonment, torture, and even execution, as well as violence, death threats, and ostracisation from their own communities. Many former Muslims or apostates risk so-called honour killing, forced marriage, kidnap, and communal violence at the hands of their families for “bringing shame” on…… Read More
Like VICE News? Subscribe to our news channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Some parents in India practice the Devadasi tradition, selling their daughters into a life of prostitution, often around the age of 10. Watch more VICE documentaries here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries We traveled to the Indian city of Sangli to meet a group of bolshy sex workers selling their…… Read More
In 2015, Greece found itself on the frontline of the biggest refugee crisis since World War II and caught unprepared to receive record numbers of people. The EU shut its border to Greece in 2016 to prevent refugees from moving further up the continent, leaving 50,000 people trapped there. Among them are up to 3,000…… Read More
Welcome to the official Independent Television YouTube channel. Independent Television is a 24/7 news oriented satellite channel of Bangladesh. This channel is broadcasting news and talk shows related to news and current affairs, business, sports, entertainment and many more. Contents of Independent Television are available In this YouTube channel with regular updates. Tune into Independent…… Read More
On March 10th, 2020, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol left his home to go to work. He never returned. The survivor of an alleged enforced disappearance, today Shafiqul Islam Kajol remains in jail on charges filed under Bangladesh’s heavily criticised Digital Security Act. This is his story, his family’s story and also the story of Bangladesh’s…… Read More
For as long as money has existed, there have been plenty of people willing to kill for it. Contract killing is one of the world’s oldest professions. In The Business of Crime, VICE World News looks at different parts of the criminal economy, separating fact from myth and finding out the reality of the murder-for-hire…… Read More
The number of missing persons and unidentified remains in the United States has been called “the nation’s silent mass disaster” by the National Institute of Justice. Since 1980, there have been 250,000 recorded unsolved homicides in the United States, and due to lack of funding and support for forensic research and law enforcement training, that…… Read More
Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News A recent UN report revealed that one in eight men in rural Bangladesh admit to having committed rape. Although it is a crime punishable by death, there are no accurate government figures for rape in Bangladesh, largely due to social stigma and a failure by local authorities to investigate…… Read More
Bangladesh is one of the few Muslim nations where prostitution is legal, and the country’s largest brothel is called Daulatdia, where more than 1,500 women and girls sell sex to thousands of men every day. Daulatdia is infamous for drug abuse and underage prostitution, and many of its sex workers are victims of sexual slavery…… Read More
In Honduras, gang violence, poverty and corruption are waging a bloody war against women. In the past year alone, a woman has been murdered every 36 hours, making the country one of the deadliest in the world to be female. Watch more like this: Inside the Deadliest City in Honduras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpNZc-q20Jw Greece’s Summer of Fire…… Read More
Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News In a corner of Santa Fe, one of Bogotá’s seedier neighborhoods, a woman named Luz Marina runs a nursery for the children of prostitutes who work in the city’s red light district. She charges $5 to look after babies and young children while their mothers sell their bodies, often…… Read More
Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News A recent UN report revealed that one in eight men in rural Bangladesh admit to having committed rape. Although it is a crime punishable by death, there are no accurate government figures for rape in Bangladesh, largely due to social stigma and a failure by local authorities to investigate…… Read More