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A cave’s ancient secrets, and efforts to fight rape and enslavement

Here are the stories we’ll be following the week of July 9, 2018:


Teacher in wheelchair holds her hands above a child dancer
swissinfo.ch

Tuesday

From children in diapers to aspiring professional ballerinas and eclectic choreographers, no one walks out of the Basel Dance Academy without a lesson in fortitude. The driving force of these collaborations that weave together dancers from all ages is a former professional ballerina who now teaches from a wheelchair. 



Men in hard hats shine flashlight onto cave wall
Bill Harby

Wednesday

Some 70,000 years ago, a Neanderthal woman about 40 years old died in a small cave in western Switzerland. Or if she didn’t die there, her body was brought there – maybe by family, maybe by a cave lion or wolf. We step inside the cave to reveal its ancient secrets.



Junge Frau als Opfer von Vergewaltigung in Monrovia, Liberia (2009)
UN Photos

Thursday

The Swiss NGO Trial along with Swiss diplomats are upping their efforts to stop the use of rape as a weapon of war in places like Syria, Myanmar or Libya.



Des prostituées du Nigéria sous des parapluies
Lorena Ros

Friday

Switzerland is one of the countries where Nigerian migrants – convinced they are bewitched – are enslaved as prostitutes. We speak to a social worker who’s combatting this kind of human trafficking.



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