Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

A man from west Belfast has been given a jail sentence of 23 years for rape and sexual abuse of children. Stephen-Lee McIlvenny, 21, with an address at Hydebank Young Offenders Centre has admitted 77 charges, including the repeated rape and blackmail of three teenage boys.

I nod in silence. I place the keys in and twist. He stands next to me and pushes the door. We walk across the creaky, shiny hardwood floors, and I put down the heaps of paperwork and brochures, along with the large orange pill bottles that contain my HIV prophylaxes. Alex stands with me in my room.

A report issued by UNICEF investigators described horrific abuses, affecting children as young as 1 year old, in the civil war in Sudan.

A former doctor who's admitted sexually assaulting hundreds of children is facing likely new charges for abusing his own granddaughter.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Cyprus’ law enforcement authorities failed to live up to their obligation to thoroughly and effectively investigate a British teenager’s claims that s