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Black girls are seen as ‘less innocent’ than white girls, study finds
July 5, 2017 · By www.usatoday.com
Adults perceive black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than white ones, a new study found. The Georgetown Law report, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, expands on a 2014 study on adult perceptions of black boys. But the new study differs in how it examines adults’ views of black girls and […]
Read More...Safe from harm: Tackling online child sexual abuse in the Philippines
July 4, 2017 · By Andy Brown for blogs.unicef.org
The Philippines has become the global epicentre of the live stream sexual abuse trade, and many of the victims are children. In the slums of Manila, a police raid of a child sexual exploitation operation illuminates the challenges the country faces in protecting vulnerable children and prosecuting their abusers. As stated by the UN Convention […]
Read More...UNICEF study: 8 in 10 Filipino youth in danger of online sexual abuse
July 3, 2017 · By www.unicef.org
Children rescued from an operator of live stream sexual abuse shows play inside a recreation room at the Child Protection Unit, Philippine General Hospital. The Philippines has been a top source of child sexual materials in the world, with the number of live stream child sexual abuse cases increasing. NEW YORK/MANILA, 7 June 2016: Eight […]
Read More...Jersey care system child abuse report to be released
July 3, 2017 · By Jersey for www.bbc.com
A three-year inquiry into widespread child abuse in Jersey’s care system is due to reveal its findings later. The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, led by UK judge Frances Oldham QC, included the testimony of hundreds of witnesses. It heard 553 offences took place between 1947 and 2004, with more than half said to have occurred […]
Read More...No stranger to child abuse scandals, cardinal now finds himself in firing line
July 3, 2017 · By www.independent.ie
The Pope is likely shaking the dust off a letter of resignation from one of his top men, Australian cardinal George Pell. The letter has been gathering dust in a Vatican file for just over a year – Pell submitted it, as obliged, when he turned 75 last year. Francis, if truly committed to reassuring […]
Read More...Victoria’s new child abuse laws target online offending and reverse onus of proof
July 3, 2017 · By Victoria for www.theguardian.com
Changes to 50 sexual offences update laws to tackle abuse on social media and other online platforms New laws have been introduced in Victoria to help protect children from abuse, holding religious, childcare, government and community organisations to account and modernising child abuse material laws. The Wrongs Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse) Act 2017 has come […]
Read More...Top Vatican official Cardinal George Pell denies sex offense accusations
June 30, 2017 · By Melanie Eversley and Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY for www.usatoday.com
Cardinal George Pell says he is taking a leave of absence as the Vatican’s finance czar after Australian police charged him with multiple counts of “historical” sexual assault. Pell says he’s going back to Australia to fight the charges. AP One of the Vatican’s most senior officials on Thursday denied allegations of sexual offenses and […]
Read More...Women trafficked to Glasgow for sham marriages
June 29, 2017 · By Scotland for www.bbc.com
Eastern European crime gangs are repeatedly forcing trafficked women into sexual exploitation and sham marriages, a BBC investigation found. The programme, Humans for Sale, found one Slovakian girl who had been trafficked to Glasgow three times. Many of the women were forced into sham marriages with men, mainly from Pakistan, who were seeking to apply […]
Read More...US Lists China Among Worst Human Trafficking Offenders
June 29, 2017 · By www.ndtv.com
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: President Donald Trump’s administration hit China Tuesday over its rights record, listing the country alongside Sudan and North Korea on a list of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders. The State Department downgraded China in its annual “Trafficking in Persons Report,” saying Beijing is doing little to combat the phenomenon or protect […]
Read More...Stolen boys: Life after sexual slavery in Afghanistan
June 28, 2017 · By Agence France-Presse for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy. Jawed was kidnapped by a former jihadi commander in Shomali, north of Kabul, when he was barely 14, a victim […]
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