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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A faculty panel has been appointed to investigate claims of intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
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Universities which "discriminate" against private school pupils could be in breach of human rights, a report says.
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A teenager is due to accuse her school of discriminating against Christians in a High Court action.
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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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Between the time Roman Catholic Church officials first learned in 1997 of allegations that the Rev. Joseph Byrns had molested two altar boys 30 years ago and finally removed him in June, the cleric allegedly abused another altar boy, law ...
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LOBBYIST Dr Glenda Simms is urging sexually abused women in the upper echelons of society to speak out more about their experiences as victims of violence, as a means of empowering their less affluent counterparts to do likewise.
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The arson attacks on Dutch mosques in the past few days and yesterdayâs bomb blast at a Muslim school in Eindhoven, following on the murder a week ago of Theo van Gogh, the director of a film attacking Islam, are frightening developments.
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Eleven detainees say U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, allegations that include beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, according to a lawyer's notes that were recently declassified and released Monday.
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An expert in child law has warned that Irish schools could be sued by students who have been educated in sub-standard buildings, The Irish Times reported Monday.
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Â· Traditional owners protest at government crackdown Â· Police sent in after report of rampant child sex abuse
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Children taught about sexual abuse in school are better able to recognize signs of abuse and do more to protect themselves, researchers said on Wednesday.
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When a band teacher was arrested here and charged with sexually abusing 16 students, jaws dropped at the allegations: Police said the teacher had tied young girls to chairs with duct tape and rope and then re-enacted bondage scenes from his porn collection. Investigators now say the school district in this blue-collar Chicago suburb had received complaints about the teacher years earlier and had warned him in 2001 against "inappropriate touching" but never reported him.
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Indian parents slammed a social science book being used in schools in the western state of Gujarat which describes Pakistan as a &quot;den of terrorism.&quot;
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NEW YORK  - 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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An eight-year-old child is to be reported to the Children's Panel following an alleged attack on a head teacher.