Int'l court case against ex-pope fizzles
The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican ...
Senate bill defines sex trafficking as child abuse
Child prostitutes would be considered victims of abuse rather than juvenile offenders and be referred to child welfare officials under legislation in ...
Chinese against sex abuse: Sleep with me, not kids
Suddenly all kinds of people in China are offering to sleep with the headmaster. The unusual outpouring is in response to a recent spate of sex abuse ...
Correction: Japan-Sex Slaves story
In a story May 8 about the use of sex slaves during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that then-Prime Minister Yohei Kono issued ...
Italy tries to reduce violence against women
Violence against women in Italy has been thrust into the spotlight with a raft of headline-grabbing murders of women by their lovers — a trend the U.N
Anguish from Japan's sex slave legacy unsettled
More than 70 years ago, at age 14, Kim Bok-dong was ordered to work by Korea's Japanese occupiers. She was told she was going to a military uniform ...
German opposition party to examine pedophile past
Germany's second-largest opposition party said Friday it is commissioning a study to investigate the influence of pedophiles in the group's founding ...
NY senator: Assaults let military culture continue
Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S.
Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among ...
Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks
Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by ...
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that ...
Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ...
Japanese mayor: Wartime sex slaves were necessary
An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to ...
HRW: Sex workers in China subject to police abuse
Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in ...
Egyptian man disguised as woman is harassed
Waleed Hammad dressed conservatively for his secret mission into the world of sexual harassment and abuse on the streets of Cairo, donning a long tan ...
UN: Girls as young as 6 raped by Congo troops
Congolese troops fleeing the M23 rebels last November raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, a U.N. report released Wednesday said.
London hosts Somalia meeting to aid post-war gains
Somalia's president over the weekend received the country's first pieces of mail in more than two decades. It's the kind of small but hopeful ...
Congo: 12 army officers to be charged with rapes
A dozen senior officers in the Congolese army have been arrested for responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo ...
G-8 foreign ministers slam NKorea rhetoric
Foreign ministers from the G-8 nations on Thursday condemned North Korea's aggressive rhetoric and the development of its nuclear missile programs, ...
Jolie joins G-8 to urge end to sexual violence
Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts.
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