Pope Benedict XVI has met privately with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests. The pontiff held prayers and spoke with them Monday at the conclusion of a nine-day visit for World Youth Day, an international Catholic festival....
By Cindy Saine Washington 18 April 2008 Pope Benedict held an emotional meeting Thursday in Washington with five people from Boston who had been sexually abused by priests. Reaction to the meeting has been mixed and some victims say they are still wa...
By Lisa Schlein Geveva 12 December 2007 A group of UN experts has criticized the government of Sudan for failing to implement most of the recommendations made by special investigators to the conflict-racked Darfur region. The group presented its repo...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 05 November 2007 U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she was devastated upon learning that a staff member at her girls' school in South Africa had been accused of abusing several pupils. Winfrey made the remark hours aft...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 24 September 2007 Kenya is hosting Africa's first-ever conference about the sexual abuse of children, a problem that has become one of the widest-spread and most troubling issues on the continent. Nick Wadhams has the story fo...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2007 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging the Government of Sudan to take immediate action to protect thousands of civilians in the village of Bir Dagig, located about 30 kilometers north of El Geneina...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 13 July 2007 Human Rights Watch says that despite government efforts at reconciliation, Thai security forces are still committing rights abuses in fighting an insurgency in southern Thailand. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok,...
IN THE NEWS - Prisoner Abuse in Iraq By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, May 08, 2004 This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfel...
Rosanne Skirble Before the discovery of antibiotics in the 1940s, millions of people died routinely of staphylococcus and streptococcus and more serious bacterial infections like meningitis, pneumonia...
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