Commentary Companies in China, we’re told, are recruiting more women, granting them even more opportunities to succeed. At long last, after years of oppression, Chinese women are finally considered equals. Earlier this year, to mark International Women’s Day, Shanghai Stock Exchange rang its bell in celebration of its female citizens. How magnificent. Is there a…
French Report: 330,000 Children Victims of Church Sex Abuse
PARIS—Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon. The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown number of other…
Investigation Finds 21 WHO Staff Members Abused Over 80 Women and Girls in Democratic Republic of Congo
An independent investigation has found that dozens of women were sexually exploited and abused by aid workers from the World Health Organization (WHO) during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2018 and 2020. The investigation was launched in October last year through an independent commission co-chaired by Aïchatou Mindaoudou, the former minister of…
After Leaked Videos, Iran Opens Cases Against Prison Guards
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country’s notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees at the facility leaked out last week. The judiciary’s three-day investigation into mistreatment and grim conditions at Tehran’s Evin prison had landed “some” prison guards…
Detective Responds to Family Abuse Call, Decides to Adopt Boy Who Survived Being Burned and Stabbed
Two years ago, a Hillsborough County detective adopted a boy from Riverview who narrowly survived a traumatic, severely abusive family situation that left him scared, physically and emotionally. Ronnie was only 8 years old in 2018 when a family tragedy resulted in him being stabbed and burned. Detective Mike Blair from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s…
Police To Investigate Racial Abuse of England Players After Euro 2020 Loss
New Scotland Yard said it will investigate after three players from the England football team received racial abuse online. England lost the European Championship to Italy on Sunday in a penalty shootout, disappointing fans hoping to celebrate the team’s first international trophy since the 1966 World Cup. Three black players, Jadon Sancho, Bukayo Saka, and Marcus Rashford…
Rates of Australian Indigenous Children Put Into Protective Care a ‘National Shame’
New figures show indigenous children form a disproportionately large number of kids who have received child protection services, including for substantiated child abuse and neglect, children on care and protection orders, and children in out-of-home care. A report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), titled “Child protection Australia 2019–20”, shows one in every 18…
Crimes of Compassion: Their Toll on Children
Commentary It’s natural and normal to feel sadness and sympathy at the suffering of others and to want to alleviate it. The paradox of compassion in that sense is that it often becomes a rhetorical device for justifying action that harms those it’s supposed to help. If you had compassion, this kind of sanctimonious advocate…
More Than 7300 Incidents of In-Care Abuse in Victoria, Report Finds
Vulnerable teenagers placed in residential care under Victoria’s child protection service were subjected to violence in 2019-2020, with more than 700 suffering serious physical and sexual abuse, a report has found. The annual report by Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young Persons (pdf) also found that of the 7300 incidents reported for that year, eighteen…
Couple Adopt Abused Twins to Raise as Their Own, Refuse to Give Up When One Develops Brain Tumor
A North Carolina couple, both previously divorced, first met each other at church, but had no intention of having more kids of their own. Middle school teacher Laura Hottel and her now-husband Jay have children from prior marriages. They already “went through that stage of our life,” she said. But one day, their tune changed; for…
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