An aide to a politically influential Filipino church leader who is wanted for alleged trafficking of underage girls and sexual abuse has been arrested in a wide-ranging manhunt, Philippine officials said Friday.
According to the UN Children’s Fund, the war in Sudan has displaced at least 450 000 children from their homes, with tens of thousands of them fleeing into neighboring countries. The lack of education, according to aid organisations, puts these refugee children at greater risk of exploitation, child marriage, and joining armed organisations.
For more than 40 years, the non-profit Children of the Night has been helping young people leave prostitution. As Genia Dulot reports from Los Angeles, the group’s founder, Lois Lee, started working with minors while in college
In Burkina Faso, many children who were forced to leave school following threats by Islamic militants are working in the country’s informal gold mines, where they are at risk of accidents
Child Trafficking: U.S. authorities are highlighting the issue of human trafficking, the exploitation of others for labor or sex work, which often targets children
The parent who fled the Netherlands with her daughter was found by the Judiciary Police today, January 12th, in Azambuja. The child was handed over to his grandparents until his father came to Portugal.The decision to prevent the sharing of parental responsibilities led to the mother of the child under the age of six fleeing with her daughter to her country of origin after these measures were judicially imposed by the Dutch court
A contest, which, in view of the reinforcement of psychological and psychotherapeutic support for children and young victims of domestic violence treated and / or received in the National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence (RNAVVD), was launched this January by the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality in Portugal.The proposal, which comes under the Operational Social Inclusion and Employment Program, takes on an allocation of 2.78 million euros and aims, as stated in a statement by Rosa Monteiro’s secretary’s office, to “address the need for specialized support services , privileging psychotherapeutic approaches focused on trauma, and which assume the designation of RAP – Responses of Psychological Support for children and young people killed from domestic violence
A man was detained for indications of various crimes of child sexual abuse, rape and pornography of minors on 27 December by the Criminal Investigation Department of Aveiro of the Judicial Police, in Portugal
Within the scope of the European Arrest Mandate, a woman and three men were extradited from France and Greece to Portugal in December for crimes of theft, fraud, forgery of documents, qualified theft, rape, sexual abuse of minors and debauchery of private life, money laundering, forgery of documents and criminal association
A Combonation of four stories depicting the reality of child Marriage. Economist Quentin Wodon from the World Bank shares his insight into why people marry young and the economic cost of child marriage. Reporters: Carol Guensburg, Hayde Adams-Fitzpatrick; Camera: Karina Choudhury; Edited by: Phil Dierking, Martin Secrest Pam Strawbridge issues marriage licenses at the a …