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World Refugee Day 2014: Number of refugees displaced globally tops 50 million
20 Jun 2014 News
UNHCR report says more than half of those displaced are children, with aid organisations reaching breaking point.
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Armed conflict: Child rape addressed at summit on ending sexual violence in conflict
16 Jun 2014 News
Children are 'soft targets' who are particularly vulnerable and such crimes often go unreported, says UN special representative.
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JAPAN: State bans real-life child sexual abuse material but cartoons remain legal
5 Jun 2014 News
Possession to be outlawed but manga, anime and computer graphics depicting sexual exploitation of minors exempt.
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NEPAL: Bogus orphan trade fuelled by rise in 'voluntourism'
28 May 2014 News
Poor parents routinely duped into sending children to homes where owners use them to extract money from foreign visitors.
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HOLY SEE: UN Committee Against Torture criticises Vatican handling of sex abuse
27 May 2014 News
UN experts reject argument that Vatican only exercises control over city state and is not accountable for priests' actions worldwide.
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RWANDA: Rwanda genocide 20 years on: 'the killers are our neighbours now'
29 Apr 2014 News
Survivors of the slaughter were described as the lucky ones but many, haunted by the memories, found it difficult to move on.
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SYRIA: UN urged to defy Assad on aid or risk lives of hundreds of thousands
29 Apr 2014 News
Eminent legal experts argue that UN should ignore Syria's ban on supplying aid directly to areas outside Assad regime's control.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Bentiu massacre is game-changer in South Sudan conflict, says UN official
25 Apr 2014 News
UN says rebels slaughtered hundreds of people when they seized capital of Unity state, urged on by hate speech on radio.
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SENEGAL: Law bans 10-year-old rape victim from aborting twins
7 Apr 2014 News
Efforts of human rights campaigners thwarted by Napoleonic law allowing abortion only in life-or-death circumstances.
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ERITREA: Military is trafficking the nation's children, report says
5 Dec 2013 News
Summary: Senior military officers kidnap and hold to ransom youngsters, and many are sold on to human traffickers,...
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