January, 2018
Most children in UK’s poorest areas now growing up in poverty
January 24, 2018 · By Patrick Butler, Social policy editor for www.theguardian.com
End Child Poverty says years-long freeze on benefits is major factor in emerging crisis More than half of all children in the UK’s very poorest areas are now growing up in poverty as the impact of cuts to benefits continues to be felt by the least well-off families, according to a new study. An analysis […]
Read More...Israel gets flak over human rights record in Geneva
January 24, 2018 · By Barbara Bibbo for www.aljazeera.com
Geneva, Switzerland – UN member states have criticised Israel during a heated Human Rights Council (HRC) session for failing to abide by human rights laws and UN resolutions, with some labelling it an “apartheid state”. The scolding came in this Swiss city on Tuesday as Israel was undergoing its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a […]
Read More...Parents accused of torturing 13 kids dreamed of reality show
January 24, 2018 · By Brett Kelman, The Desert Sun for www.usatoday.com
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A Perris couple who have been accused of starving and torturing their 13 children dreamed of becoming household names through a reality show that focused on a large, picturesque family, according to a relative who says he spoke with the couple as recently as a month ago. But, instead of finding […]
Read More...‘Short, sharp shock’ ruined my life: Abuse victims describe brutal reality of youth detention centres under Thatcher
January 23, 2018 · By Lizzie Dearden Home Affairs Correspondent for www.independent.co.uk
Former inmates say their lives spiralled into violence and addiction because of trauma from ‘sadistic, brutal concentration camps’ Margaret Thatcher’s government rode into office on the back of a manifesto that promised to fight crime by giving young offenders a “short, sharp shock” at detention centres. Ministers claimed army-style discipline would deter youngsters from a […]
Read More...Online child sex abuse referred to Met increased by 700% since 2014
January 23, 2018 · By Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent for www.theguardian.com
Inquiry into child sex abuse heard that Scotland Yard was alerted to potential paedophiles operating online on 647 occasions in first nine months of 2017 The number of suspected incidents of online child sexual abuse referred to the Metropolitan police has increased by 700% since 2014, an inquiry has heard. The National Crime Agency (NCA) […]
Read More...Pope decries killings of women, other violence
January 22, 2018 · By Associated Press for newsinfo.inquirer.net
TRUJILLO, Peru — Pope Francis denounced on Saturday the killings of women and other gender-based crimes that have turned Latin America into the most violent place on Earth for women. At a Marian prayer in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, Francis called women, mothers and grandmothers the guiding force for families. But he said […]
Read More...In Chile, pope met by protests, threats, burned churches
January 22, 2018 · By PETER PRENGAMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS for abcnews.go.com
As he does during every papal visit, Pope Francis produced plenty of surprises in Chile: He married a couple during a flight, stopped his motorcade to help a fallen police officer and wept with victims of sex abuse by priests. But the pope also faced protests and a level of hostility unheard of in modern […]
Read More...Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’
January 22, 2018 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
Scientists have taken a step towards one of the biggest goals in medicine – a universal blood test for cancer. A team at Johns Hopkins University has trialled a method that detects eight common forms of the disease. Their vision is an annual test designed to catch cancer early and save lives. UK experts said […]
Read More...Maltese journalist’s son says she was murdered for exposing corruption
January 19, 2018 ·
VALLETTA (Reuters) – The son of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist said on Tuesday his mother had been killed by a car bomb because of her work exposing political corruption, as hundreds of people demonstrated to demand justice after her death. Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wrote about graft across Malta’s political divides on her blog, died […]
Read More...Turpin: Shackled siblings found in Perris, California home
January 19, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
A California couple have been arrested after police found their 13 children allegedly held captive at home, some “shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks”. David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were held on charges of torture and child endangerment. The couple’s children – aged two to 29 – lived in […]
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