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News - According to an independent review conducted by Jersey's Safeguarding Partnership Board about sexual abuse and harassment allegations from Jersey College for Girls (JCG) students about boys at Victoria College, sexual harassment in schools in Jersey must be better…
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News - According to the report of Save the Children, 2040 people were registered as victims of trafficking by the Italian protection system in 2020. 5% of the above-mentioned cases involved children, while girls and women were involved in 80% of the total cases, according to the…
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News - According to the special rapporteur on Child Protection, Ireland may potentially be a ‘world leader’ in using facility dogs when it comes to assisting in the needs of those who suffered sexual abuse. New research will examine the effectiveness of facility…
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News - Report recommends halting adoptions from abroad because of abuses: AD A report about adoption in the Netherlands is asking to stop adoption from abroad. After civil worker, Tjubbe Joustra has noticed through studying cases for 30 years the abuse has done to the parents and…
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News - Exit News reported that 55% of Albanian child victims of sexual violence live in poverty, according to a report presented by Barnhaus Albania. 42% of them live in substandard housing conditions, which means that there is clearly a connection between financial hardship…
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News - In 2018-19, 3.8% of all child sexual abusers were female, based on police reports, Office of National Statistics data shows. Figures from BBC Radio 4's File on 4 shows in average 40 cases of child sexual abuse are committed by women in a week…
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News - According to government statistics, during the first 6 months of the pandemic the number of children killed or injured has doubled. Among the incidents there were death or serious harm to kids, where abuse or neglect is suspected or known and deaths of…
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Multimedia - In many cases, victims of school abuse do not dare to seek help or do not know where to ask for help. It is the responsibility of adults to notice the signs of abuse. What exactly is bullying? It has three main characteristics: it is a regularly recurring, intentional…
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News - The European Commission issued a new directive called the e-Privacy Directive, which prohibits online communications services (such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.) to track private messages of people while using their messaging services in European Union countries.…
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Online library - The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has published a new report on child sexual abuse in schools. The report describes the experiences of Truth Project participants sexually abused in the context of schools between the…
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News - Albania has made some progress in tackling human trafficking, but there is still more work to do. In GRETA's previous evaluation, it had found that some legislation had been amended to strengthen rights and the…
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News - UNFPA writes about a new campaign “Fight Like a Girl” developed by Gender Stream, a grassroots women's rights initiative from Dnipro, and UN Women in Ukraine, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Fight Like a Girl is a new online space free from…
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News - A union of charities announced the case of closing England’s child prisons due to the ill-treatment of children meanwhile COVID 19 is intensifying that harm. The announcement originally came out in 2016 but there was nothing done about it. Officials think about turning one…
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News - The Institute for the Fight against Addiction records an increasing number of alcohol addicts, which increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, but also cases of domestic violence caused by alcohol consumption. It is encouraging that many seek help…
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News - The Guardian reports on the possible dangerous situations caused by end-to-end encryption, a technology that makes it impossible to keep track of content sharing and increasing potential cases of abuse, because the shared content would only be available for those…
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News - The Guardian's Helen Pidd reports that Unicef has recommended the use of Tasers and spit hoods on children should be banned in the UK. Unicef found that the police in some forces in England use them disproportionately on black, Asian and minority ethnic (…
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News - It has become clear that lots of child abuse cases went unnoticed in numerous US states over the course of the COVID pandemic. Delaware State, for instance, had a 35%-40% reduction in child abuse and neglect reports while reports from educators decreased by 89% in April.…
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News - Online privacy protections have gone through a major reform that came into force on December 20 in the European Union. However, the new law does not only affect the EU but the rest of the world as well, including children, who from now on are more easily exposed to online…
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Online library - The Non-Violent Childhood - Action Plan on the Prevention of Violence against Children 2020-2025 brings together policies for the prevention of violence against children aged 0-17. The Plan focuses as well on early…
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News - The written submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child deals with how Germany complies with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Especially the submission focused on the problems and recommendations in the…
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News - According to the report by Rights and Security International (RSI), the "violent, unsanitary and inhuman" conditions in the Kurdish controlled al-Hol and al-Roj camps had led to the avoidable death of hundreds of babies and young children (…
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Online library - ‘Act Now’, a child consultation study by World Vision, reveals that more than four in five (81 percent) of those interviewed across 50 countries have seen or faced violence in their homes, communities or online since the start of the COVID-19…
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News - Catholic churches in the western countries are infamous for their scandals with child sexual abuses and a new independent inquiry made for the churches in England and Wales, unfortunately, confirmed the same thing. Following the publishing of the report comprising of 162…
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News - The BBC reports on the newly introduced smacking ban bill in Scotland, presenting the country as the very first part of the United Kingdom to do so. Before the bill, it was allowed and quite common among parents and carers to use smacking as a form of…
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News - According to international studies, nearly 40 percent of children experience some form of maltreatment defined as abuse and neglect of children, including all types of physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, negligence, or other forms of exploitation by the…
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News - Official statistics show that one in five children in the UK experiences domestic abuse. This has long term consequences for a child's psycho-social development. A new program operating in the UK, ‘For Baby’s Sake', empowers …
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News - How can we protect against online sexual abuse of children?  The “game-changing” is a new interactive chatbot will interrupt people trying to access online child sexual abuse material to get them to change their ways. The aim is for the new chatbot…
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News - The Guardian recently reported that there were 541 underage victims of 'revenge porn' in England and Wales last year. 'Revenge porn' means "the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos with intent to cause harm." 360 children were suspects in such cases,…
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Online library - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in cooperation with United Nations Women (UN Women) published the Covid-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. This document shows how governments reacted or are reacting the crisis related to the pandemic. The factsheet is…
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News - Vulnerable children living in households with abusive family members must suffer a lot during the pandemic lockdown. However, there is a group of children among them who are even more vulnerable: the ones who fall into the grey area when it comes to