Kheris, 11, was regularly driven to tears by teasing but now she's got a positive message for others.

David Blasczak, 69, of Newark, New York, acknowledged that he also persuaded mothers to allow him to photograph their young daughters' genitals.

People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan's wartime use of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.

NEW YORK -- Most 14-year-old American schoolboys might be fixated on baseball, chasing girls and dodging their homework. Not Ethan Sonneborn. He's running for governor in Vermont. The teenager is taking advantage of a quirk in the constitution of the bucolic northeastern state that imposes no age limit on running for governor. Candidates only have to have lived in Vermont for at least four years. Ethan, happily for his campaign, has lived in the state for 14. He faces a crowded field of adult rivals in Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary. His website proclaims him a champion for middle- and working-class families, with "the right id......

The founder of the Everyday Sexism campaign says that schoolboys think making girls cry during sex is normal due to the amount of porn available on the internet.

The NSPCC says the statistics, which have doubled over 20 years, are "sadly unsurprising".

Football tournaments in Northern Kenya are helping hundreds of girls break from child marriage, early pregnancy and female genital mutilation.

The father of a three-year-old girl attacked by a fox in her bed has told how she was left petrified by her ordeal.

Football tournaments in Northern Kenya are helping hundreds of girls break from child marriage, early pregnancy and female genital mutilation.

In Sharp Objects, the only character less comfortable in the town of Wind Gap than Amy Adams’s hometown daughter in exile Camille Preaker is Richard Willis, the out-of-town detective investigating the murders of two young girls. Camille and Richard start off trading quips over drinks, and then move on to ...