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Illegally detained and abused Irish mothers and children to be compensated by the State and Church.
November 17, 2021 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Illegally detained and abused Irish mothers and children to be compensated by the State and Church. Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said a new financial redress scheme for the survivors of mother-and-baby homes will be the largest in the history of the State in terms of the number of beneficiaries. He said it is a […]
Read More...Children Behind Bars: The Global Overuse of Detention of Children
November 15, 2021 · By HRW.org for www.hrw.org
Children Behind Bars: The Global Overuse of Detention of Children Shortly after 16-year-old T.W. was booked into Florida’s Polk County Jail in February 2012, his three cellmates punched him, whipped him with wet towels, and nearly strangled him with a pillowcase. They then urinated on him, sprayed his face with cleaning fluid, and stripped him […]
Read More...Mother sentenced to 20 years in 1-year-old’s death
November 12, 2021 · By AP News for apnews.com
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A woman in South Carolina has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2017 death of her 1-year-old son. The Post and Courier reports that Alexis Grant, 27, was sentenced Tuesday on a charge of homicide by child abuse. She had been arrested in May 2017 in the city […]
Read More...Pope ‘shamed’ by church’s failures over child abuse in France
November 12, 2021 · By Angela Giuffrida in Rome for www.theguardian.com
Pope ‘shamed’ by church’s failures over child abuse in France Pope Francis has said he is “shamed” by the Catholic church’s failure to deal with paedophile priests in France, as one of his closest advisers pushed for an inquiry into the sexual abuse of children by clergy in Italy. A landmark report on Tuesday found that at […]
Read More...Horrific on-line sexual abuse turns to physical sexual abuse in the Philippines
November 12, 2021 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Creaven recorded sexual abuse, court hears A former RTÉ Sports producer filmed himself sexually abusing a young child in the Philippines seven years ago while other children were in the room, a court heard today. Kieran Creaven, with an address at Adelaide Street in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, has already pleaded guilty to ten charges. […]
Read More...No way out for South Asia’s child laborers
November 11, 2021 · By Ben Joseph for www.ucanews.com
No way out for South Asia’s child laborers Agricultural technology is the next big thing happening in South Asia — the child labor hotspot of the world that employs most of its teenage workers in farms and allied sectors. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have child labor populations of 5.8 million, 5 million, 3.4 million and […]
Read More...French bishops agree to compensate thousands of sex abuse victims
November 9, 2021 · By Aljazeera for www.aljazeera.com
French bishops agree to compensate thousands of sex abuse victims France’s Catholic Church has agreed to financially compensate thousands of people who were sexually abused by priests in what the president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference hailed as a “decisive step”. Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said in a speech on Monday that the church has recognised […]
Read More...Catholic priests in France ‘must report abuse allegations heard in confession’
November 9, 2021 · By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris for www.theguardian.com
Catholic priests in France ‘must report abuse allegations heard in confession’ Catholic priests must report all child sexual abuse allegations to police, including if they hear about it in the secrecy of the confession box, the French interior minister has said after reprimanding France’s top bishop for claiming that the secrecy of the Catholic confessional […]
Read More...‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks
November 3, 2021 · By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS for apnews.com
‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the U.N. summit. And the risk […]
Read More...The earth’s suffering reflects the cry of the poor, everyone’s cry
November 3, 2021 · By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp for www.vaticannews.va
The earth’s suffering reflects the cry of the poor, everyone’s cry In just a few days, world leaders will gather in Glasgow for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which will take place from 31 October to 12 November. One of its objectives is to “accelerate action towards the goals of the […]
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