Coco Wang: I am going to send you comic strips almost everyday from now on, I hope you could know something about the earthquake in China, although you don't have to do anything, but I hope you could feel our love and hope.

Despite recent political commitments by governments and international organisations to tackle this problem, the report exposes the chronic under-reporting of such abuse, which leaves many children around the world suffering in silence.

Many aid workers are sexually abusing children they have been sent to help, a leading charity claims today. One aid worker on the Ivory Coast told Save The Children: 'Many agencies working here feel they are beyond reproach.'

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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees

This month, we feel we must turn the news over to developments in Burma. Ethical Traveler first began a campaign to bring attention to the plight of the Burmese people with our Candles for Burma action, more than two years ago--

Danish researchers plan to set sail for the North Pole on Sunday to collect geological data, on a mission similar to Russia's one last week. The month-long Danish expedition will study the Lomonosov Ridge. Russia believes the underwater feature is link

A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man....

Plans for a US operation to "neutralise" the PKK will not only antagonise the Kurdish minority and increase the bloody toll of victims in Iraq--it also threatens to destabilise one of Washington's most important allies in the region.

Media indifference to the truth is not simply about protecting one man or even the Metropolitan Police as an institution. It is about justifying the imposition of draconian legislation and polices, of shoot-to-kill in the name of the war on terror.