A former childcare worker in Australia has been charged with more than 1,600 child-abuse offences in the country and abroad over a 15-year period.

US Interior Secretary vows to unveil as much history as possible about cruelties perpetrated within the Native American boarding school system that separated generations of children from their families to wipe out indigenous culture.

Americans, especially members of the Native American community, are in shock following the revelation of over 500 Native American student deaths at US boarding schools.

Another indigenous community in Canada has found evidence of more unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, amid a growing tally of such horrific discoveries that first shocked the nation last year.

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The CIA files show at least 10 staff members committed child abuse crimes; only one was charged. .

French bishops say the Catholic Church bears an "institutional responsibility" for the sexual abuse of hundreds of thousands of children over the past decades.