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The Road Near Rio’s Olympic Village Where 9-year-old Girls are being Sold for...
Around a bend on one of Brazil’s longest highways, only a 50-minute drive from Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic village, girls as young as nine are selling their bodies to truck drivers for money. Just a few...
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Acknowledging Past Institutional Child Sexual Abuse In Aotearoa/ New Zealand...
My name is Grant West I am a survivor of child sexual abuse in New Zealand. My abuse was by many different people in government-run institutions. I am now travelling New Zealand collecting signatures...
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)… and...
“A 2003 UNICEF report said New Zealand had the third-worst rate of abuse and neglect of children in the OECD group of developed countries and Helen Clark, the prime minister at the time the law was...
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Press release: UN to examine New Zealand’s approach to child rights
Minister of Social Development Anne Tolley leads a New Zealand delegation to Geneva this week to report on the nation’s children and whether their rights are being upheld. UNICEF New Zealand Executive...
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Part of her “Forever Years” spent in a Nazi Death Camp: Miracle that saved a...
Yvonne Engelmann was just 15 when she was rounded up with her family and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the network of German Nazi extermination camps operated by the Third Reich in...
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It’s another person’s Child, be a Busybody! By A.LLY, written for Fei Yue...
As parents, how often do we think of raising children other than our own? And in the context of Singapore, there is an innate fear of being labelled as “Kay Poh” (busybody) even though the intention...
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A New Book about an Important Issue: “Stolen Lives”, by Netta England
There have been over 300,000 children abused in NZ state care. I am one of them. So many suffered hideous abuse. This is our nation’s greatest shame. My name is Netta Christian (nee England). My book...
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Don’t fall into Cambodia’s orphanage trap, Australians told, by Lindsay Murdoch
Phnom Penh: Tara Winkler, a former NSW Young Australian of the Year, says it is “highly unethical to expose vulnerable children to serious risks in order to engage donors and raise funds”. Ms Winkler...
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“Do what it takes for as long as it takes to restore a broken life”:...
Hagar International works with women, children and young men in Cambodia, Vietnam and Afghanistan who have been victims of human rights abuses including trafficking , slavery, torture and sexual...
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Reversing fetal alcohol damage after birth: Study offers hope, from “Science...
Two commonly used drugs erased the learning and memory deficits caused by fetal alcohol exposure when the drugs were given after birth, thus potentially identifying a treatment for the disorder,...
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