Physical & psychological abuse

A Senate Finance Committee report described instances of abuse and neglect in four operators' residential treatment facilities, which OPB reported often receive more than $1,200 a day per child from Medicaid

New Hampshire Attorney General's review found claims of current abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center unsupported, but cited chronic dysfunction in its administration

Taliban authorities detained a Kabul women's-rights activist and her son for about three months; she says she was tortured and lost hearing in one ear

UN human rights office says Rapid Support Forces fighters killed more than 1,000 civilians in a three-day attack on Zamzam camp in April 2025.

Police watchdog says four Northamptonshire officers have a case to answer over their handling of Harshita Brella's domestic-abuse report before her death.

UN investigators say RSF fighters killed at least 6,000 people in 72 hours after taking El Fasher, then spent weeks burning and burying remains

New Zealand's government formally acknowledged that children were tortured at the state-run Lake Alice psychiatric unit and set up a redress scheme.

Burkina Faso journalist Atiana Serge Oulon has been forcibly disappeared for two years, rights groups say, after his paper revisited a corruption allegation.