Violence against women

Some 3,000 paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of an independent commission investigating the scandal told AFP days ahead of the release of its report.

The commission's research uncovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of the church, said Jean-Marc Sauve, adding that it was "a minimum estimate".

Bulgaria Launches Campaign to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation

British-Turkish actress Susku Ekim Kaya has become the face of the Staunch Test's campaign that took place in London, the U.K.

The satirical campaign was designed by screenwriter Bridget Lawless, who is best known as the writer of the famous British TV Series "The Bill" and also the founder of the "The Staunch Book Prize," an award for thriller novels without violence toward women.

After the rape, the police sent him to the capital Pristina, where his ordeal continued. "Then I was seriously abused again, beaten up… I was praying to be killed rather than endure what was happening to me."

A missing Turkish-American woman living in New Jersey was found dead in Tennessee after an alert for her son was canceled, according to the U.S. authorities.

The U.S. police issued an amber alert for Yasemin Uyar and her 2-year-old son, Sebastian, on July 9 afternoon after the tot didn't show up for daycare and his mom didn't arrive at work.

Romanian and Spanish police have busted a criminal gang that recruited young girls in Romania for sex work in nightclubs in Spain, Europol said on Thursday.

Six suspects have been arrested in Romania and seven in Spain during the operation, which also led to the identification of 25 victims in the two countries. Some 24 of the trafficked women were Romanians and one is a Bulgarian.

Prime Minister Florin Citu points out that Romania is still on the human trafficking watch list, in a report released by the US State Department, adding that "an integrated effort" of all institutions is needed to combat this problem. "The US State Department launched yesterday the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report.

Turkey's Council of State has rejected a request for the continuation of Turkey's stay in the Istanbul Convention, a Council of Europe treaty designed to eradicate violence against women, and the annulment of the president's decision to leave the agreement despite an avalanche of opposition from women and feminist groups.

A total of 293 of the 332 MPs in Romania's Chamber of Deputies voted on Thursday in favour of removing the statute of limitations for crimes ranging from human trafficking, forced labour and slavery to rape and the sexual abuse of minors, Romanian news website G4Media reported.

The allegations claim he would ask for photos with sexual content of his students in exchange for him to pass them