World News
India’s female feticide not forgotten on ‘Day of the Girl Child’
October 26, 2018 · By Bijay Kumar Minj, New Delhi for www.ucanews.com
Anti-abortion and other groups have joined government efforts to change India’s skewed sex ratio that is caused by large-scale female feticide. According to the Population Research Institute, at least 12.7 million sex-selective abortions were conducted in India between 2000 and 2014. On the eve of the United Nations’ established International Day of the Girl Child, various groups joined […]
Read More...263 San Francisco Bay Area priests branded sexual abusers in survivor’s report
October 26, 2018 · By Corky Siemaszko and Alex Johnson for www.nbcnews.com
The attorney for a California clergy abuse survivor accused the leaders of three San Francisco Bay Area dioceses on Tuesday of engaging in an “institutional cover-up of an enormous magnitude” and released a list of 263 local priests whom they branded sexual predators. The priests named in the 66-page report, compiled by the law firm of […]
Read More...Ireland a destination for child trafficking gangs, warns Europol
October 25, 2018 · By Conor McCrave for www.independent.ie
Ireland has been identified as a destination for victims of child trafficking networks in a new report published by Europol. The report, detailing cases of underage trafficking within and into the EU, revealed 302 cases – some which included more than one victim – in the two-year period between 2015 and 2017. Criminals operating out […]
Read More...Paedophile spends just one week in prison for abusing seven-year-old girl
October 25, 2018 · By Kate Buck for metro.co.uk
A paedophile who sexually abused his seven-year-old neighbour over three years only served one week in prison. Vernon Platt, now 89, admitted abusing Jayne Mahgagahbow for three years from the age of seven and was sentenced to one year behind bars. But his sentence was later reduced to a suspended sentence because of his age […]
Read More...$600k a year for paedophile ‘protector’
October 25, 2018 · By Nina Funnell for www.news.com.au
OPINION FORMER Australian governor-general Dr Peter Hollingworth should be stripped of his $600,000 a year entitlement after it was found he protected paedophiles during his time as Anglican Archbishop. In 2003, Dr Peter Hollingworth resigned as governor-general in disgrace after a church report into his mishandling of multiple cases of child abuse during the 11 […]
Read More...One of Britain’s most prolific paedophiles has jail sentence reduced by appeal judges
October 24, 2018 · By Cathy Gordon for www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A paedophile who blackmailed a string of vulnerable victims has won a challenge against his “manifestly excessive” prison sentence of 32 years. Court of Appeal judges reduced Matthew Falder’s jail term to 25 years on Tuesday. Bespectacled Falder, originally from Knutsford, watched the proceedings via video link from prison. His barrister Andrew Smith QC told […]
Read More...Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for US drug policy.
October 24, 2018 · By German Lopez for www.vox.com
Canada has become the first wealthy nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. The Senate approved Bill C-45, also known as the Cannabis Act, on Tuesday. The measure was already approved by the House of Commons, so the Senate’s approval means it’s now set to become law. The measure legalizes marijuana possession, home growing, and sales for adults. […]
Read More...Australia sexual abuse: National apology delivered to victims
October 23, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. Hundreds of people gathered in Canberra on Monday to hear Mr Morrison deliver the emotional address in parliament. It follows a five-year inquiry which found tens of thousands of children had suffered abuse in the nation’s institutions over decades. […]
Read More...Lack of progress fighting hunger is shameful, pope says
October 22, 2018 · By Anne Condodina Catholic News Service for www.catholicnews.com
ROME (CNS) — At a time of technological and scientific progress, “we ought to feel shame” for not having advanced in “humanity and solidarity” enough to feed the world’s poor, Pope Francis said. “Neither can we console ourselves simply for having faced emergencies and desperate situations of those most in need. We are all called […]
Read More...The human trafficking scourge
October 22, 2018 · By WIN ZAR NI AUNG | FRONTIER for frontiermyanmar.net
Despite rising criminal prosecutions, human trafficking remains rife in Myanmar and is fuelled by widespread poverty. By WIN ZAR NI AUNG | FRONTIER “They killed her because she refused to work as a prostitute.” Ko Min Zaw said he saw about half a dozen men beat Ma Moe to death in a forest in Thailand’s […]
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