COMMENT | Child abuse is a societal problem but is often treated at the individual or family level.

Rogelio Cabrera's announcement comes amid extensive sexual abuse scandals across the Catholic Church in several countries. 

The mother says the doctors confirmed her only child suffered internal bleeding in the head. 

The five-year-old boy, who had bruises on his face, body, chest, and back, died on Wednesday morning.

Police say a post-mortem this evening revealed that the boy died due to multiple blunt trauma.

Deputy minister Hannah Yeoh urges parents to be aware of signs of abuse or potential risk.

Kailash Satyarthi says he is gathering support from religious leaders including Pope Francis for treaty and global task force.

She also hopes all babysitters would be registered with the ministry.

More than 40 percent of businesses analysed scored zero on human rights.

The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.

COMMENT | Key gov’t agencies can also act together to develop a joint policy on safeguarding and protecting children.

COMMENT | We cannot allow children's basic rights to be ignored so that adults can do with them as they please.

One allegedly threatened to burn a boy's private part with a lighter and cut it off with gardening scissors.

The operator of the kindergarten in Ayer Keroh, Malacca, has also been issued with a warning, it says. 

Primary schoolteacher had previously been reported for sexually assaulting students in another school.

Child marriage is a complete violation of a child’s human rights and must be made a crime, says its commissioner. 

Father of abused 46-day-old infant who died from abuse also being brought before court. 

Nur Aina Nabihah suffered a ruptured intestine and broken ribs after allegedly being beaten, slapped and stomped on.

'You took advantage of my innocence and trust,' says Jessica Thomashow.

UPDATED 9.05PM | The culprit who is known to the victim's family will be remanded tomorrow.

The meeting with children raped and molested by priests took place at the Vatican Embassy in Santiago.

The soldier and his wife face an RM20,000 fine and 10-year jail term if found guilty. 

The former warden had sodomised one boy, and molested three others.

Siti Zabrina Adin is given 15 years - up from the 10 years imposed earlier by a S'ban court for causing the death of the four-year-old. 

The duo is alleged to have chained the 10-year-old boy by the neck to a gas cylinder in a house in Malacca, last month. 

There is no bigger human responsibility than being a parent.

The toddler's brother has admitted to beating her, though police are unsure when the beatings happened.

Her mother, 42, and brother, 22, are held for questioning.

Police say the 31-year-old man is a boyfriend of the boy's mother.

The little girl is seen in a video, repeatedly beaten with a wooden stick for dropping her food on the dining table.