The Telegraph reports that state-funded institutions in Ireland were a "secret and closed world run on fear", where "nuns and priests terrorised children and covered up years of brutality, rape and molestation in workhouse-style schools. Ritual beatings were encouraged and paedophiles were shielded."

Children in Guinea who work in slave-like conditions for no pay are struggling to break free and end a cycle of abuse that limits the country's progress. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from the capital Conakry, where local aid workers are trying to help.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry says gunmen have released all the children briefly held hostage at a high school in North West Frontier Province.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $660 million to 500 victims of sexual abuse dating back as far as the 1940s in the largest compensation deal of its kind, the plaintiffs' lawyers said on Saturday.

The organizing committee of next year's Olympics in Beijing says it is investigating allegations that some official merchandise for the games was made abusing workers and using child labor. An official of the committee said in Hong Kong that companies found to be violating labor rules would lose their contracts.

Lawan Ibrahim, one of the millions of poor Nigerian voters in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria said he won't vote for the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the PDP led government of President Olusegun Obasanjo failed to improve his living condition in the two terms of 8 years.