Interesting Materials & Links

Child Sexual Abuse Within Religious Communities

• UN Panel Report on Child Sexual Abuse and the Vatican
• UK’s Biggest Child Abuse Inquiry Begins
• Child Abuse Rampant in British Institutions Says Archbishop of Canterbury
• Archbishop of Canterbury: Survivors of Abuse are Never the Ones to Blame
• Archbishop of York “Put welfare of Sex Abuser Priest Before Child Victims.”
• Vicar had 8,200 Child Sex Abuse Images
• Former Vatican envoy placed under House Arrest
• Catholic Church Defrocks 52 priests for Sex Abuse
• Benedict XVI Defrocked over 400 priests in two years over child sex abuse
• Vatican: States Must Tackle Child Abusers Among Clergy
• Pope sets up Child Abuse Committee
• “Abuse like leprosy infecting the Church“
• Vatican’s Child Abuse Response
• Rabbis cover up child sexual abuse, says paedophile
• Aussie Rabbi: Paedophile victims may have consented to abuse
• Rabbi jailed for 105 years
• Rabbi admits to sex crimes
• Rabbi apologises for sex abuse comments
• Anti-Abuse activist dies of overdose
• Sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Haredi Community
• Child Safety in Synagogues – Discussion
• Afghan Mullah who Raped 10 Year Old Girl in His Mosque Sentenced To 20 Years in Prison
• Report Finds 1,400 children were Victims (Rotherham)
• Rotherham Abuse Victims Tell Their Story
• Asian Girls Also Victims of Sex Grooming in Rotherham
• Child Sexual Exploitation “The Norm” in parts of Greater Manchester
• Current Child Abuse Inquiry

Reports, Research and Organisations

• UN Convention on the Rights of The Child
• UN Committee On The Rights of The Child
• Current Child Abuse Inquiries in the UK
• The Commission To Inquire Into Child Abuse
• Independent Panel Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse
• Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry
• Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham
• Alexis Jaye Report on Child Exploitation in Rotherham Reveals Local Government and Ofsted Failings
• Ann Coffey MP’s inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rochdale
• Report reveals Rochdale and Rotherham not isolated cases
• Wanless Review
• Clergy Discipline Commission
• Clergy Discipline Measure
• MACSAS
• Stop Church Child Abuse
• Shameful Truth
• No2Abuse
• Nested
• Women for Afghan Women
• Sexual Abuse and Duty of Care Owed By The Catholic Church

Radicalisation

• Birmingham Schools Investigated
• Children taught at home about murder and bombings
• Radicalisation of Children
• Radicalisation as a form of child abuse
• The Children of Jihadists: Collateral Damage or Natural Born Jihadists?
• Dangerous Minds
• Radicalisation is political and religious failure
• How should Radicalisation Be Tackled?
• “Islamist Brainwashing”
• The Internet and Radicalisation
• Prisons in the UK as Incubators for Radicalisation?
• The UK Must Improve Its Programme to Fight Radicalisation
• ISIS and its British Jihadists

Reports, Research and Organisations

• Government Report on Radicalisation
• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
• Roots of Violent Radicalisation
• Radicalisation Research

FGM, Forced Marriage and Women’s Rights

• FGM at a glance
• Egypt’s battle to end FGM
• FGM Support in UK under Threat
• FGM and Protection Orders New Measure in UK
• Girls at risk of FGM Will Have Passports Seized
• Efua Dorkenoo OBE
• Forced Marriage
• Forced Marriage and ethics
• Forced Marriage Law in UK Sends Powerful Message
• Honour based violence and Forced Marriage investigated in Cambridge
• ISIS and Forced Marriage
• A Review of Islamic Law and Gender Equality
• Indian Women Use Sharia Law To Fight for Gender Equality
• No Place for Sharia Law in Britain?
• The Qur’an Dilemma
• Ghana Records a decline in Polygamy
• Sharia Law – Neither Equal or Free
• Barones Cox: If We Ignore Wrongs, We Condone Them
• Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill (to protect victims of domestic abuse and ensure all parties to such services are on an equal footing)

Critical Thinking and Religion

• Interfaith Week, 16-22 November
• The Interfaith Network
• Sharia Law: No Place in Europe
• Is Rationality The Enemy of Religion?
• Why Religious Education is Letting Our Children Down
• Young People Feel Religion is Not A Force For Good
• The Origins of Religious Disbelief
• The Primacy of Reason
• International Society For Science and Religion
• Religious Belief and Human Nature
• The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion