Police from around the world say they have broken up the largest internet paedophile ring yet discovered. Rob Wainwright, head of Europol, the European Police Agency, said the abuse network had 70,000 members and links to 30 countries.

The operation has identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children.

When small boy 'does the wrong thing', his punishment is hot sauce and cold showers. [This is a clip that was shown on Dr. Phil. Watch it. ]

A fairly decent rundown on the 287g controversy in Tennessee: a must-read if you care about the ensuing civil rights struggle in this country! When was the last time you were indefinitely detained because of the color of your skin?

WBAI's Evening News had the best coverage, detailing the stories of the unscrupulous restauranteur who answered a plea for payment with a whack of a frying pan & the contractor who threw someone out of a moving vehicle after they had severely beaten them - all for asking when the …

Imagine if your employers felt that they could strike you upside the head with a frying pan when you asked to get paid or throw you out of a moving car after severely assaulting you - & get away with it! Would you believe in the need for better labor laws then?

In plain English, it's a catch-22 emotional con job. Because we are emotionally more vulnerable or fragile (due to constitutional sensitivities, cultural factors, early childhood abuse, etc.), we are more susceptible to narcissistic predators who treat us badly.

Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10 000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public on Sunday, revealing at least one previously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the US after the Diocese of San Diego intervened.

After a three-year legal battle over the Diocese of San Diego's internal records, a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late on Friday that they could be made public. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse or were named in a civil lawsuit.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has convicted a Muslim man for having gone a little too far in beating his wife and 23-year-old daughter because the punishment "left marks."

I was very disturbed to read this story about this Sri Lanken domestic worker abused by a Saudi couple she worked for. Here is a link to more information about the abuses of foreign domestic workers in the countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Kuwait.

The rights of women are improving in Afghanistan, but some fear the return of violence toward women if the Taliban is included in a coalition government. In TIME magazine (vol. 176, No.

Some of these women come to Mathura with their families on religious pilgrimage, never knowing the family plans to -- and will -- slip off and leave them behind.

The Vatican's decision to declare the attempted ordination of women a "grave crime" has been fiercely condemned by women's church groups in the UK.

Pat Brown, of the group Catholic Women's Ordination, said she was deeply shocked and called the change to Church law "a slap in the face to women".

Originally published in August 2009, re-published here in part, copyright. Maddad Part One: Part Two:

"I was in the room playing with my cousin and they called us to come," Delan said. "They cut my cousin. I was very afraid. I was crying and crying. My mother is very fat; I knew if I could run she could not catch me, but she held me too strong. I could not get away.

Psychological violence is now a criminal offense in France, but some judges say the new law may be difficult to enforce and prosecute.

The seventeen-year-old victim, who has cerebral palsy, has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old and is confined to a wheelchair.

"Don't Tase my Granny!" Grandson Pleads Not only did police taser Lonnie Tinsley's 86 year old granny because she took a 'more aggressive posture in her bed' but according to the complaint, the police also stepped on her oxygen hose, depriving Lona Varner of her oxygen.

"It was in 1968 or 1969, and I was a young intern counseling a girl from one of South Africa's townships, who'd been raped. She said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" Ehlers told AOL News. "And I thought, God, it would be great to make something that could really be useful."

excerpt: ''Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana's juvenile justice system at 12 years of age, she presented herself as a boy and used male pronouns.

"Ignorant" officials are obsessed with punishing victims of trafficking rather than targeting those behind the crime, a report claims.

A coalition of human rights groups says the system for handling victims in the UK is "not fit for purpose". It wants an independent anti-trafficking watchdog to be created to oversee the work of officials.

Five Arizona women painted a picture of abuse, terror, and civil rights violations during a special hearing Thursday before Congress about the impact of a state law that would make it a crime to be undocumented.

A former police commander accused of overseeing the torture of more than 100 African American men goes on trial today in Chicago. Former Lieutenant Jon Burge is accused of lying when he denied in a civil lawsuit that he and other detectives had tortured anyone.

Amnesty International has accused Tajikistan of failing to protect its women, saying nearly half are raped, beaten or abused by their families.

A woman who is forced into marriage is likely to be raped and may be raped repeatedly until she becomes pregnant," says the report published into the first year of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act of 2007

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.

A study of schoolchildren in Glasgow, Scotland, revealed some extremely disturbing findings: violence against women was perceived as justifiable if there was a "reason" behind it (anything from having an affair to being late making tea).