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Rape Victims To Get Pre-Trial Recorded Interview Option

Alleged rape victims in England and Wales may not have to be cross-examined in front of the accused, under plans by the...

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Death Carts Carry Family Ripped Apart By Mosul Campaign

As a convoy of wooden carts descends a hill outside Iraq's war-torn second city of Mosul, a child's foot, greyed with...

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State Must Support Domestic Violence Victims

Mr Martin Kpebu a legal practitioner on Friday said the establishment of Domestic Violence Support Fund to cater for...

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NGO Pays For Endorsement of Victim’s Medical Forms

The Child Protection Network in the Upper East Region has paid the GHc 300 that would allow the endorsement of the...

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Government Ordered To Establish Fund In Support of Victims of Domestic Violence

An Accra High Court, in a landmark ruling, has ordered the Government of Ghana to establish a domestic violence support...

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Court Orders Government To Establish Fund For Domestic Violence Victims

The Human Rights division of the High Court has ordered government to immediately establish a domestic violence support...

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Government Given 6-Months To Put Money Into Domestic Violence Fund

An Accra High Court has ordered government to allocate money to the domestic violence support fund to provide free...

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Court Orders Gov’t To Establish Fund For Domestic Violence Victims

The Human Rights division of the High Court has ordered government to immediately establish a domestic violence support...

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Syria Has Become ‘torture Chamber’

The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a "tidal wave of bloodshed" over more than six years of war in Syria had...

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Raped Virgin Under Suicide Watch

Suicide experts have warned the 13-year-old supposed virgin who not too long ago suffered a gang rape inside a bush in...

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In Conflict Zones, Companies Struggle With Ethics Vs Profits

Some multinationals working in conflict zones are turning to ethically dubious practices to keep their factories...

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Fear and Hunger In Iraq’s West Mosul

The luckiest of west Mosul's residents under Islamic State group rule had tomato concentrate. Potatoes were an almost...

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Several Injured At Duesseldorf Train Station

At least five people have been injured in an axe attack at the main railway station in the western German city of...

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Amal Clooney Urges Iraq To Allow Probe of IS Crimes

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Thursday urged Iraq to agree to a UN investigation of atrocities committed by the...

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‘Justin Bieber Impostor’ On 931 Child Sex-Related Charges

A man who posed as Justin Bieber online has been charged with more than 900 child sex-related crimes in Australia. The...

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Police DNA Blunder Led Them To Wrongly Link Neo-Nazi To Girl’s Murder

A police DNA blunder led officers to wrongly link a neo-Nazi killing spree to the unsolved murder of the 'German...

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Mosul Families Huddle At Home, Terrified of IS

For two weeks, Yunis Mohammed and 17 relatives huddled terrified in the cellar of his west Mosul home as the Islamic...

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One Arrested In Connection With Hot Electric Iron Torture

Police in Tamale have confirmed the arrest of one of five suspects in connection with the torture of a 15-year old...

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Horrible Gang Rape Video Shakes Up Upper East

A bush rape of a teenager, perpetrated by a gang at night and captured on video, has sparked strong shockwaves across...