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An independent panel reviewing UN peacekeeping operations recommended sweeping changes on Tuesday to make the soldiers more accountable for sexual abuse and other crimes.

Activists have welcomed the policy, which recommends an end to gender segregation in schools through things like uniforms, sports lessons, as well as facilities like toilets. 

Although there is little data on the impact of gang violence on child marriage, anecdotal evidence shows girls are getting married and coupled with gang members, which they see as a form of protection from gang violence and intimation from other gangs. 

The court decision marks the first time in Europe that a State-sanctioned Roma-only settlement is ruled discriminatory. 

Courts appear to be trivialising child sex abuse, activists say, as child rapists are being acquitted as long as the child is over the age of 12 and appears to have consented. 

Although medical associations largely see gun violence as a public health threat, with 10,000 children killed or injured by firearms each year in the US, efforts to address gun violence from a public health standpoint have been met with considerable resistance. 

The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 

UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptable. 

Dozens of countries have signed up for a Safe Schools Declaration in response to the deliberate targeting of education in war and terror attacks.

Shafqat Hussain is expected to be hanged on Tuesday for an offence he 'confessed' to committing after nine days of torture.  

A report shows that FGM is being practiced in several areas of the country, while country's authorities stay silent.

Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of an external independent review to examine the UN's handling of allegations of child sexual abuse in the Central African Republic by French peace-keepers.