Source: The Telegraph UK

 

Can everyone please calm down about child abuse?

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On that we can all agree. But what is less a matter of consensus is how we should respond to the scandal. When I argued on Newsnight this week that we need some calm reflection and that the whole of society should not be reorgan ...

Oct 25 2012, 1:02pm CDT

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UK court: Lawmaker's wife's tweet was libelous

Source: Miami Herald

LONDON -- Britain's High Court has ruled that a tweet posted by the wife of the speaker of Parliament about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous. A BBC report last year led to widespread Internet chat ...
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Call for hotline serving grown-up victims of child abuse

Source: The Telegraph UK

Yet the wave of adults now beginning to re-open long supressed memories of sexual exploitation from decades before has led charities and lawyers to advocate a dedicated 24-hour national hotline to support fully-grown victim ...
Full article at: The Telegraph UK  More like this  1 day ago, 12:38pm CDT

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New scheme to help adult survivors of child abuse

Source: The Scotsman

The Jimmy Savile investigation has led to an increase in the reporting of cases. Picture: AFP A NEW training scheme for staff helping adult survivors of child abuse was launched today following “significantly increased” reporting of cases since the Jimmy ...
Full article at: The Scotsman  More like this  1 day ago, 11:08am CDT

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Achebe's Bequest to the Nigerian Child

Source: AllAfrica.com

In 1965, the BBC accepted and broadcast my short story, Strange Encounter, on the Writers' Club Programme. It was read by Tonie Tucker and discussed, with high commendation, by Edward Blishen. Little did 1 know that the warm reception ...
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Warning on poor school swimming

Source: BBC News

22 May 2013 Last updated at 20:33 ET By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter The report calls for school sport spending to be focused on swimming More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Associatio ...
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Savile sparks abuse reporting 'rise'

Source: BBC News

22 May 2013 Last updated at 20:12 ET Glasgow-based charity Roshni said high-profile coverage of the Savile case had encouraged more victims to speak out Reporting of historic child abuse has "significantly increased" since the ...
Full article at: BBC News  More like this  1 day ago, 7:12pm CDT

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'Newsnight' journalists win top award for axed Jimmy Savile report

Source: Digital Spy

Two Newsnight journalists have taken home a top award for their shelved report on disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile. Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, alongside two other journalists, won 'Scoop of the Year' at the London Press Club Awards. ...
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Children accused of witchcraft by the tens of thousands in the Congo.

Source: Patheos Blogs

In the Congo, somewhere in the vicinity of 50,000 children are being held in churches because they are believed to be witches. There are around 50,000 children being held in churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of witchcraft, a BBC ...
Full article at: Patheos Blogs  More like this  2 days ago, 1:02pm CDT

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BBC Newsnight journalists win award for spiked Jimmy Savile investigation

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones were joint winners of scoop of the year for the axed Newsnight investigation into the Jimmy Savile scandal. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, who worked on Newsnight' ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited  More like this  2 days ago, 11:14am CDT

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BBC Doc Highlights Continuing Abuse of Children Accused of Witchcraft in Congo

Source: Bartholomews Notes on Religion

BBC Three has broadcast a documentary entitled Branded a Witch, in which young British mother of Congolese heritage named Kevani Kanda visited Congo to see the consequences of child-witch accusations in the country. The statistics are gri ...
Full article at: Bartholomews Notes on Religion  More like this  2 days ago, 8:20am CDT



 

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