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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 boy who sent a naked photograph of himself to a girl at school has had the crime of making and distributing indecent images recorded against him according to the BBC.

The UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has launched an investigation into allegations its soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl.

Boys from West Africa as young as 14 have been 'trafficked' to an unregistered football academy in Laos, where they are given no salary and made to sleep in 'deplorable' accommodation. One NGO, Culture Foot Solidaire, estimates that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of West Africa every year - many of them illegally. 

Article covering a Muslim teenager's experience in Denmark's programme to dissuade young people from going to fight for al-Qaeda or Islamic State.

Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has told lawmakers that professional football clubs are exploiting children as young as 10 by tying them to binding legal agreements and treating them as financial commodities.     

Australian government is facing two challenges in court over its policies towards asylum seekers.

The number of ritual child abuse cases linked to witchcraft being investigated in London is increasing. A total of 24 cases were passed to the Metropolitan Police in 2013, 19 in 2012 and nine in 2011.

A leading children's charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply.

More than 7,000 children have been placed in state-run institutions in Europe's poorest country, Moldova, and only 2% are orphans.