Arrests in the case of Sahar Gul, a teenager confined by her husband’s family, may be a sign that Afghanistan is beginning to take women’s rights seriously.
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At War Blog: In One Girl’s Story, a Test of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
A scathing report exposes Pembrokeshire council’s failings over child abuse allegations as a helpline is set up for concerned parents.
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Inquiry scathing at abuse failure
A row flares over an advert by an animal rights group which claims that giving children meat is “child abuse”.
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VIDEO: ‘Meat eating child abuse’ poster row
The world’s largest online child abuse ring, with up to 70,000 followers, has been smashed, police say.
A 19-year-old man is charged with sexual offences by police investigating allegations of child abuse in Torbay in Devon.
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Man, 19, charged in abuse inquiry
A Vatican department told Ireland’s Catholic bishops in 1997 not to report priests suspected of child abuse to the police, a newly revealed letter shows.
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Vatican ‘rejected abuse reports’
Communities Minister Fergus Ewing tells MSPs laws covering compensation for institutional child abuse are “inflexible”.
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Minister says abuse law is ‘inflexible’
The Northern Ireland Executive agrees to hold an inquiry into historic and institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland.
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Stormont to hold NI abuse inquiry
Victims of child abuse by Catholic priests in Italy have met for the first time, and called for such abuse to be made a crime against humanity.
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Italian priest abuse victims meet
Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his “deep sorrow” for the “unspeakable crimes” of child abuse within the Catholic Church.
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Pope’s ‘sorrow’ for child abuse crimes
At War Blog: In One Girl’s Story, a Test of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
