Bharathi S. Pradhan is a senior journalist and author...

For more than two decades, R&B singer R. Kelly has been trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct. He was married to a young singer who turned out to be 15 years old. There were claims that he c...

Still struggling to come to terms with their share of responsibility in the clerical sex abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church, France's bishops have agreed to award financial compensation to vict...

Pope Francis on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of minors, abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy” that previously cove...

Women Against Social Evils, an NGO, conducted an awareness campaign and coordination meeting at Torajan village under Dhemaji district of Assam on Sunday to fight unitedly against drug trafficking/abu...

A Kerala church has sacked a nun after she spoke up for a fellow nun who has accused a bishop of raping her.The Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) has issued a dismissal order to Sister Lucy Kalapu...

Groups of children in 80 villages of Sandeshkhali I in North 24-Parganas are helping prevent abuse and trafficking of kids hired as domestic help in cities.From passing on information to the village a...

The need to correct a perceived imbalance may lead to others. Prompted by the increase and spread of sexual violence against women, laws against them were sharpened and conditions laid down for their ...

The Vatican on Monday reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do so in ...

I have often wondered why good people of good conscience don’t respond to things like slavery or the Holocaust or human rights abuse.Maybe they simply became numb to the horrific way we now rarely t...