International News Digests 55

Contents:

• Children sanitation alert issued
• British Sex Offenders Win Human Rights Claim
• 3 girls missing in W. Delhi

Children sanitation alert issued
By Matt McGrath
BBC science reporter

Millions of children’s lives are being put at risk each year because aid agencies and governments make wrong choices about health care priorities.

This is the conclusion of a new report from the charity WaterAid.

It says that diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation is killing many more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

The report says the global spending on HIV/Aids hugely outweighs the amounts spent on providing better sanitation.

British Sex Offenders Win Human Rights Claim

Two convicted sex offenders today won groundbreaking rulings that their “indefinite” registration on the sex offenders register with no right of review is “incompatible” with their human rights.

The test cases of teenager “F”, who cannot be identified, and an adult, Angus Thompson, came before three judges at the High Court in London.

Lord Justice Latham, Mr Justice Underhill and Mr Justice Flaux held the current registration scheme wrongly denied them the chance to prove in a review that they no longer posed a risk of reoffending.
The judges ruled both applicants were entitled to declarations that the scheme was incompatible with their Article 8 right to private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.

3 girls missing in W. Delhi

THREE GIRLS between 14 and 16 years have reportedly gone missing from their homes in West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar A case of kidnapping has been registered by police but they suspect the girls may have eloped.

The police received a com- plaint from the girls’ families on Saturday “The girls left their houses on the pretext of attending tuitions but none of them returned til11ate in the night after which their families approached us,” said a senior police officer.

The police have detained a man in this connection and said the girls were possibly somewhere in Delhi.

THREE GIRLS between 14 and 16 years have reportedly gone missing from their homes in West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar A case of kidnapping has been registered by police but they suspect the girls may have eloped. The police received a com- plaint from the girls’ families on Saturday “The girls left their houses on the pretext of attending tuitions but none of them returned til11ate in the night after which their fami- lies approached us,” said a sen- ior police officer. The police have detained a man in this connection and said the girls were possibly somewhere in Delhi. (HT/Delhi)