It has empowered civil society organizations to demand that governments respect women's human rights and to adopt policies to limit sex trafficking, domestic violence, child marriage and discrimination in the workplace.

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Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal against being on the register was incompatible with their human rights and the law was changed so sex offenders could ask their local police force to remove them from the register 15 years after they are released from prison.

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Charges against the five defendants, together and individually, include sex trafficking, murder, fraud and forced human labor, among others.

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He said there were many misconceptions about human trafficking, and its victims were not confined to the sex industry or the cities.

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Vatican III would have to look at things like the dignity of the human person, empowerment of the laity, the role of women and the sex abuse scandal.

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As part of the reforms to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, the government intends to change the law to outlaw sex selection for non-medical reasons.

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Strange how the Catholic church can muster such a strong organized opposition so quickly to contraceptives (despite the fact the pope calls health care a basic human right.) Yet they took decades to start cleaning their own messes with child sex abuse.

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