Two more incidents of child abuse have been reported from Kasur's Pattoki Tehsil this week. After the Chunian incident, the victims of child abuse in Pakistan have started raising their voices with the hope of seeking justice and unmasking the pedophiles.

Pakistan: 2 more cases of child abuse surface in Kasur

Grief, fear and anger have enveloped the town of Chunian in Pakistan's eastern, Punjab province after the bodies of three missing children were found in a district which has seen numerous cases of child abuse and abductions in recent years.

Pakistani town grapples with grim history of child abuse and abduction

Australia's financial regulator on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the global money transfer platform PayPal over concerns that it is being misused by sex offenders to buy child abuse material from Asia.

Australia probes PayPal over payments for child abuse content

Grief, fear, and anger have enveloped the town of Chunian in Pakistan's eastern, Punjab province after the bodies of three missing children were found in a district which has seen numerous cases of child abuse and abductions in recent years.

Pakistani town grapples with child abuse and abduction

The Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that provides for stringent punishment for sexual crimes against children and the death penalty in cases of aggravated sexual assault.

Parliament passes POCSO (Amendment) Bill, proposed law introduces possibility of death penalty

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to fund and set up exclusive courts in every district where 100 or more cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act are pending.

Supreme Court directs Centre to fund, set up special POCSO courts

Pope Francis on Friday enacted sweeping new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse within the Vatican and other Holy See institutions in Rome as well as by its diplomatic corps worldwide.

Pope enacts new legislation to prevent child abuse in Vatican

A French court on Thursday found a senior Roman Catholic cleric guilty of covering up sexual abuse committed by a paedophile priest in his Archdiocese. A court in Lyon handed Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 68, who is the Archbishop of the city in southwestern France, a six month suspended sentence for failing to report accusations brought by the alleged victims of priest Bernard Preynat.

French cardinal found guilty of covering up child abuse

Child soliders in war zones across globe

The United States' largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing a sexual abuse crisis after a bombshell report revealed hundreds of predators and more than 700 victims since 1998.

US Southern Baptist churches embroiled in sex abuse scandal

It took a Supreme Court order to begin the first-ever, much needed, mapping of 9,589 homes, including observation homes, special homes and open shelters across the country.

Child care institutions in India are in dire need of reforms

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has delivered a historic national apology to child victims of institutional sexual abuse. "This was done by Australians to Australians, enemies in our midst, enemies in our midst," Morrison told a parliamentary chamber in a televised speech, his voice trembling with emotion.

Watch: Australian PM Scott Morrison apologises to victims of institutional child abuse

The Law Ministry has endorsed a proposal of the Women and Child Development Ministry to remove the time limit for reporting child sexual abuse, WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi said Tuesday.

Law Ministry endorses removal of time limit to report child sexual abuse: Maneka Gandhi

Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi on Monday said she is happy that #MeToo movement has started in India. However, she further told ANI that she hopes that the campaign won't go out of control "in the sense that we target people who have offended us in some way.

Happy that #MeToo movement has started in India, says Maneka Gandhi

Why preventing child abuse in schools needs change in approach

Children subjected to abuse may carry the physical hallmark of that trauma in their cells, scientists said Tuesday, in research that could help criminal investigations probing historic mistreatment.

Child abuse leaves 'molecular scars' on victims: Study

A second attacker was a classmate. The third attacker has not been identified

Noida: 16-year-old girl allegedly gang-raped in moving car, 1 attacker was a relative

Bennell, a former coach at Crewe Alexandra, is being tried on 48 counts of abuse between 1979 and 1990

Former UK football coach Barry Bennell convicted of child abuse

David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were arrested on Sunday

Parents charged after 13 siblings found starved, chained in California

Children on street, at work and in institutional care reported the highest incidence of sexual assault, he said

'53 per cent children face one or more forms of sexual abuse,' says Minister of State for Home

What has changed after years of campaigns and protests? The law. But are our children any less victimised? No.

Why Child Rights campaigns in India have failed to stop incidents like Ryan school murder

Should female genital mutilation be allowed on grounds of customary rights or banned for violating human rights?

Raising a 'proper' wife through cutting her genitals

Ideas of impurity and honour are carefully-placed constructs to silence victims of sexual attacks

Bengaluru mass molestation: Woman's scarred psyche and society's unholy mind

The FA chairman has called it the 'greatest crisis' in English football

Football: Ex Man City coach Bennell charged with eight counts of child abuse

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