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Oxford child sex gang victim tells her story

The belated conviction of seven men who groomed and sexually abused children in Oxford reveals an appalling failure of care, as council boss vows to stay on.

Naana Otoo-Oyortey Defends Strong Stance Against FGM by UK Legal Chief

The Director of Public Prosections suggested to an audience in Islington that charges of child abuse should be brought against practitioners of female genital…

International Women's Day: school is 'the new front line of feminism'

Between studying for her GCSEs and practising the viola, Lili Evans has made some "feminist bracelets" to celebrate International Women's Day on Friday. Before…

Adopted Child's Death In U.S. Prompts Outrage In Russia

Russian officials on Tuesday accused a Texas woman of fatally beating a 3-year-old boy she had adopted from Russia, setting off a new wave of outrage in a…

Zero Tolerance of FGM: Taking The Issues Forward in the UK

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a cruel legacy of patriarchal societies and traditions stretching back over millennia. Yet still it occurs, even in Britain…

FGM is Child Abuse - But UK Perpetrators Go Free

FGM a barbarically cruel fact... inflicted on multiple thousands of girls – babies, children and teenagers – in Britain, every year... No-one has ever been…

34 rapes and 126 assaults - UK police investigate deceased celebrity for child abuse

Police have recorded 34 rapes against Jimmy Savile, a UK celebrity who died in 2011, and 126 indecent assaults with the vast majority of them against children,…

Russia parliament backs ban on US adoption

Russia's lower house of parliament gave its final approval Friday to a contentious bill that retaliates against a new US human rights measure by barring…

Protecting Turkey's runaway, missing, and abducted children

İstanbul, the most populous city in the country and the city with the highest and an alarmingly increasing number of runaway, missing and abducted children,…

Former UK politician accused of child-abuse inside parliament office

Accuser says late UK Liberal Member of Parliament, Cyril Smith, abused him in a government office after 18 months of grooming

Unhappy 18th birthday: The teenage refugees living in fear

For most people in Britain an 18th birthday is an occasion worth celebrating, usually with a first pint at their local pub. But for thousands of children who…

Swedish man charged for 'long-distance' child rape

Charges have been filed against a man who ordered the sexual exploitation of Philippine children so he could watch the acts via webcam back in Sweden.

Female genital mutilation: asylum seeker fights deportation to Gambia

Female genital mutilation is illegal in the UK, but an asylum seeker fears it will be forced on her daughter if they are deported

Another 'Baby box' opens in Russia to save abandoned kids

A box in which parents can leave their babies anonymously and without any legal risk has opened in a town in northwestern Russia, part of an effort activists…