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We must fight the scourge of child domestic labour

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More than 17-million children around the world are involved in domestic labour. The recent death of 17-year-old Salome Zacharia in Tanzania highlights their plight
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You can’t beat discipline into a child

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Children displaying aberrant behaviour have often been traumatised and require counselling
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Australia’s Cardinal Pell loses child sex abuse appeal

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Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s
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Prosecutors insist Pell child sex conviction ‘unimpeachable’

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Lawyers for Pell had on Wednesday raised 13 objections to his conviction on five counts of sexual abuse
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Cardinal Pell appeals ‘impossible’ child sex conviction

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Pell is battling guilty verdicts handed down against him in December on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys
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French cardinal convicted over sex abuse cover-up

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A court in Lyon ruled that Cardinal Phillip Brown was guilty of failing to report the abuse of a minor between 2014 and 2015.
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Top pope adviser convicted of child sex crimes

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​Australian Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' closest advisers, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys
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A medical app helps identify abuse of children

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Runner-up Winner: Medi-App: Research Project
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Catholic church split over abuse scandal gravity

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The Vatican has already warned that in some countries the church is dragging its feet because of cultural difference over what constitutes child abuse
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Yes, women can be sexual predators

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It happens far more frequently than is generally believed, and can psychologically scar men for life
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Pope calls bishops to ‘child protection’ meeting in February

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The Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years
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Bird Island child abuse: The truth will set us free

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Apartheid’s ministers must account for their crimes and we too need to confront them
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Hull septuagenarian sent to prison for preying on Kenyan girls

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While on holiday, 72-year-old Keith Morris used his elevated status among villagers to groom young girls
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‘Spanking judgement sets a dangerous precedent’

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Freedom of Religion SA on Monday said a high court ruling which ordered parents to no longer spank their children would set a dangerous precedent.
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Principal and team removed from school for “concealing” sexual abuse of pupils

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​The Gauteng dpt. of education removed the principal of the Soweto primary school where over 50 pupils were allegedly sexually assaulted by a guard.
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