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INDIA: Girl 'humiliated' by village elders found dead
4 Sep 2014 News
Dead teenage girl may have been raped after having been humiliated by village "court" for protesting against her father's harassment.
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CHILE: Priest probed after 'stolen babies' scandal
15 Aug 2014 News
Judge bars a Catholic priest from leaving the country over claims he had pressured single women to give up their babies for adoption.
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ARMED CONFLICT: No place to hide for children of war in Gaza and Syria
30 Jul 2014 News
The conflicts in Syria and Gaza are having a a devastating impact on the lives of children. 
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UNITED KINGDOM: New law makes it criminal offence to force children into marriage
16 Jun 2014 News
Campaigners say that the new law in England and Wales sends "a powerful message".
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UNITED KINGDOM: Report into child abuse at school for vulnerable boys "suppressed"
5 Jun 2014 News
A health professional who reported widespread child abuse at a school for vulnerable boys in the 1990s believes his report was "suppressed".
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UNITED KINGDOM: Police in Scotland stopped and searched thousands of children in 2013
2 Jun 2014 News
Police in Scotland stopped and searched thousands of children between the ages of eight and 12 in 2013, according to data obtained by BBC Scotland.
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INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE: ICC gives Congo warlord Germain Katanga 12-year jail term
27 May 2014 News
The International Criminal Court has sentenced ex-Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison for aiding and abetting war crimes.
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NIGERIA: Boko Haram 'to sell' Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok
6 May 2014 News
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
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BRUNEI: Tough Islamic penal code introduced
30 Apr 2014 News
Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.  
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: MSF aid workers killed
29 Apr 2014 News
Three aid workers are among 22 people killed in a rebel attack on a clinic in northern Central African Republic, officials have said.
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