The 60-page report, “‘Like Patchwork’: Ecuador’s Slow Progress Tackling and Preventing School-Related Sexual Violence,” documents significant gaps in the government’s response to prevent and tackle abuses in Ecuador’s education system. Many schools still…

By Marine StraussBRUSSELS, July 17 (Reuters) - The late French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre, a lifelong campaigner for the homeless and the poor, has been...

A Toronto-area man facing charges in Sarnia, including of human trafficking, made bail a second time, this time with stricter conditions.

A member of Manitoba’s trucking industry is calling out the alleged “human trafficking” of foreign truckers, some of whom are earning few, if any, wages in the province.

[See also the text of the lawsuit.] Twenty-five plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial, alleging the Archdiocese failed to protect them and covered up sexual abuse they endured as children. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court accuses the Archdiocese…

Houston - 2 ministers, one with ties to Baylor University, accused of forcing kids to perform sex acts in sauna at Houston home.

A former Houston minister who is a registered sex offender is accused of grooming young people for decades, with the most recent…

A 12-year-old victim told police in Indiana that Naomi Belle Floren, who the child knew as Bella, gave her drugs and alcohol before encouraging multiple adult men to sexually assault her in exchange for money. When officers interrogated Floren, they allegedly…