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Child sex abuse: Failing to report it should be made illegal – major inquiry
October 24, 2022 · By Tom Symonds and Judith Burns, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Child sex abuse: Failing to report it should be made illegal – major inquiry Anyone who works with children and does not report child sexual abuse should be prosecuted, the final report of a huge, seven-year inquiry has recommended. It called the nature and scale of abuse in England and Wales “horrific and deeply disturbing” […]
Read More...Child sex abuse: The horrific findings of a seven-year inquiry
October 21, 2022 · By Tom Symonds, Home affairs correspondent, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Child sex abuse: The horrific findings of a seven-year inquiry The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual abuse was created in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to examine how institutions responded to allegations of abuse in England and Wales – both in the past, and today. During seven years of hearings, 725 witnesses gave […]
Read More...Child sex abuse: Failing to report it should be made illegal – major inquiry
October 21, 2022 · By Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse for www.bbc.com
Child sex abuse: Failing to report it should be made illegal – major inquiry Anyone who works with children and does not report child sexual abuse should be prosecuted, the final report of a huge, seven-year inquiry has recommended. It called the nature and scale of abuse in England and Wales “horrific and deeply disturbing” […]
Read More...Hong Kong’s democracy dream will not die
October 21, 2022 · By Gianni Criveller for www.ucanews.com
Hong Kong’s democracy dream will not die Chinese authorities on July 1, 2020, began implementing in Hong Kong the National Security Law to stop the popular movement for democracy and freedom, which began on June 9, 2019, and mobilized the city for a whole year. The demonstrations reached up to two million citizens, in a […]
Read More...Nepal’s wartime rape survivors demand recognition
October 19, 2022 · By AFP for www.ucanews.com
Nepal’s wartime rape survivors demand recognition Beaten and raped by police officers as a child, Mira was among the many victims of sexual violence during Nepal’s civil war — and is now one of the few to recount her ordeal. Guerrilla attacks and forced disappearances were daily facts of life on both sides of the […]
Read More...Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks
October 19, 2022 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin has said, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers flee the country. Mr Putin also said […]
Read More...Asian Catholic bishops look to ‘renew and revitalize’
October 19, 2022 · By UCA News Network for www.ucanews.com
Asian Catholic bishops look to ‘renew and revitalize’ The golden jubilee celebrations of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) got underway in Bangkok on Oct. 12 Catholic bishops from 29 countries in Asia and guests from the Vatican began their two-week general conference in Thailand’s capital Bangkok, to mark the 50th anniversary of the FABC or […]
Read More...Afghan girls take university exams weeks after classroom attack
October 17, 2022 · By AFP for www.ucanews.com
Last month an attacker burst into an education center in Kabul, detonated himself to kill 53 students, mostly girls Afghan girls take university exams weeks after classroom attack Thousands of Afghan girls and women sat university entrance exams on Thursday under the guard of Taliban snipers, two weeks after a bomber killed dozens of students […]
Read More...China intensifies crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang
October 17, 2022 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
Crackdown on Muslims comes ahead of the Chinese Communist Party conference beginning Oct. 16 China intensifies crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang China has intensified a crackdown on Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims with mass arrests and detentions ahead of the national congress of the Chinese Community Party (CCP), says a report. Over the past few weeks, […]
Read More...Pope urges world to remember war-torn Myanmar
October 17, 2022 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
Says it is ‘shameful’ not to worry about forgotten wars such as the conflict in beleaguered Southeast Asian country Pope urges world to remember war-torn Myanmar Speaking of forgotten wars, Pope Francis called on the world to remember conflict-torn Myanmar where tens of thousands of people are suffering under brutal military rule. “I want to […]
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