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Zambia’s President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, has been hit by crisis after crisis since taking office in January this year, but his greatest shame is one entirely of his own making.

Children and youth are one of the fastest-growing groups of internet users, bringing them great opportunities – but also new risks.

Joint submission for the OHCHR report on "Information and communication technology and child sexual exploitation".

MPs, a lord chief justice, a member of the royal family and public school headmasters all intervened to stop a bishop being prosecuted for sexual abuse 22 years ago, the Old Bailey has heard.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has welcomed Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Pakistani authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when arrested for a murder he says he did not commit, lawyers have said.

The Afghan government says it has "undertaken serious measures" to prevent "abominable" child sexual abuse following a report alleging the practice was rife among the country's armed forces and militias.

The UK is selling arms to countries where child soldiers are routinely used or where youngsters are targeted in war zones. 

Former employees say United Nations is failing to protect those who report corruption, malpractice or sexual abuse

Reports have emerged of continues of chemical weapons use across the Syrian - Iraq border, by both the  Islamic State militant group and the Syrian government.

A multi-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints employed young children illegally to harvest pecans.  

As many as 16,000 children under five die each day, even though they are half as likely to die before their fifth birthday now than they were in 1990.