The global nature of child sexual exploitation and abuse demands it be treated as an international public health emergency, a landmark report suggests.
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Dec 21, 2023
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Dec 12, 2023
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In its 2017 final report, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse identified that there was no large-scale national early intervention service in Australia for people worried about their sexual ...
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Oct 3, 2023
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Comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of abuse, including sexual assault and rape, by four women. The allegations—which Brand denies—include the sexual assault of a woman who says she was in a relationship ...
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Sep 28, 2023
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In 2022 alone, nearly a half-million Filipino children, or roughly 1 in 100 children, were trafficked to produce child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), according to estimates from a prevalence study by International Justice ...
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Sep 7, 2023
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Experts from the University of Manchester have claimed that the government is misleading the public by claiming that modern slavery can be eradicated by toughening up border controls and extending sentence lengths for offenders.
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Nov 23, 2022
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A new study has exploded four common myths around human trafficking in Australia, debunking the perception that offenders are exclusively male, foreigners, unknown to their victims and use physical force to control them.
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Jun 2, 2022
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Preventing sexual abuse in humanitarian settings is a top priority for the World Health Organization, its chief insisted Friday, amid pressure from donors over an abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Jan 28, 2022
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In 2008 Austrian man Josef Fritzl was found to have confined and abused his daughter, Elisabeth, in a complex beneath his home for 24 years. The extreme nature of the case—its prolonged duration, Elisabeth's multiple pregnancies ...
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Nov 19, 2021
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Climate change-related disasters are worsening the vulnerabilities of women and girls as essential health services including family planning get overlooked during such times, a report says.
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Sep 6, 2021
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