More than 26.5 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing acute hunger, according to a new analysis ...

Under new guidelines caning will only be used as a punishment for male students aged nine and above as a ‘last resort’ ...

Corporal punishment triggers harmful psychological physiological effects on children, per UNICEF. Children experience ...

The education minister said that before administering the punishment, schools must consider factors such as the maturity of ...

Nearly five years after returning to power, the Taliban are no longer merely an insurgent movement that seized control of a fractured state .

Caning will be meted out at Singaporian schools as an anti-bullying disciplinary measure for boys only when "all other ...

Two accused, warden Tom and cook Liju Kurien, were remanded for 14 days for allegedly assaulting a boy at a children’s home, ...

Now I’ve taken away every excuse not to talk to me in mediation,” the Rohauers’ lawyer, Peter Scagnelli, told The Enterprise ...

The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, with over 1.8 million individuals behind bars. While many see prison as synonymous with justice, a psychological lens reveals ...

The justices added four cases to their docket for next term, including a lawsuit brought by a conservative group challenging an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted after Election Day.

About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row." Their time grows shorter as federal and state courts increasingly ratify death penalty laws, allowing executions to ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing minors to life in prison without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Marcia Coyle of the ...