Madrassas hit by sex abuse claims
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A Pakistani minister reveals hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at religious seminaries, or madrassas.
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NEW DELHI -- Two weeks ago, a TV news channel here broadcast an expos? alleging that a math teacher at a local school had forced young girls into prostitution. The public reaction was swift and harsh: Within an hour, hundreds of enraged parents had stormed the school and a crowd had found the...
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Some patterns and locations of bruising are suggestive of abuse and warrant further investigation, researchers in Wales report.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society.
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People who say they were sexually  abused by priests could receive more than $1.5 billion in  damages from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles --  more than any other U.S. diocese has paid to date, the Los  Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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Two high schools in Mumbai have banned pupils from holding hands, kissing or touching on campus, warning that they will face disciplinary action if caught, officials said Monday.
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Moroccan U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are alleged to have sexually abused girls as young as 13 over a three-year period as units rotated through the West African country, U.N. officials said.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese  of Portland will launch an advertising campaign this week to  encourage people sexually abused by priests in Oregon to come  forward, according to a church spokesman.
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TeachersÃÂÃÂ misconceptions might be preventing bright state-educated pupils from applying to Oxford and Cambridge University, according to a survey for an educational charity.
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An inquiry into the way sex abuse in the Catholic Church is tackled finds progress has been made.
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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A faculty panel has been appointed to investigate claims of intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
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Sunni Islam's highest institute of learning Al-Azhar said Thursday it was preparing to sue Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Saadawi for a play she wrote it describes as blasphemous.
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A Muslim school is removing from textbooks passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".
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A minister orders an inquiry into an Islamic school which is accused of promoting religious intolerance.
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Palestinian children spend more of their school day studying Islam. Critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts. A once-banned social studies reader, crammed with hard-line rhetoric, is now in classrooms.
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A Muslim school is accused of using textbooks containing offensive remarks about Christianity and Judaism.