A new damning inquiry has found that over 1,000 children were abused by sexual grooming gangs in an English town due to failure of police and local authorities to prosecute the offenders.

Imprisoned political prisoners and pro-democracy campaigners are reportedly being sexually assaulted and murdered in prison in Saudi Arabia.

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the US, silenced and denigrated sexual abuse survivors over two decades ago, a new investigation has revealed.

Sexual abuse and exploitation were common at Native American boarding schools, survivors told a US House subcommittee on Thursday while recounting their harrowing ordeals. 

The European Union early Saturday finalised new legislation to require Big Tech to remove harmful content, the bloc's latest move to rein in the world's online giants.

US military officials missed multiple warnings that allowed a top civilian commander at Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase to run a child sex abuse racket over the course of a decade, a report has revealed

A former bishop in the New York state admits to covering up allegations of sexual abuse against children committed by 11 priests over 25 years.