A report into staff behaviour at the BBC commissioned after the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal concluded on Thursday that sexual harassment was rare, but bullying was a "very real concern". It said bullying was not "pervasive or endemic" at the British Broadcasting Corporation but was nonetheless "visible, frequent and consistent". The review was ordered into BBC policies on sexual harassment after revelations that late presenter Savile had abused children throughout his career, including on BBC premises. It was later widened to include behaviour in the workplace.

HALIFAX - The father of Rehtaeh Parsons is taking issue with a newspaper report that cites weaknesses in the case against boys her family says sexually assaulted her, writing that the Criminal Code "states pretty clearly that what happened ... is called rape." Parsons, 17, took her own life earlier this month. Her family alleges she was sexually assaulted by four boys in 2011 and that a digital photograph of the incident was shared around her school.

Some human rights in Greece are "are under threat or being undermined" by Athens's harsh austerity measures to meet the requirements of its international bail-out, a UN-mandated expert said Friday. Socio-economic rights such as the right to work, social security, healthcare and housing were being negatively affected by the bail-out conditions imposed since 2010 by the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, Cephas Lumina, the independent expert on the impact of foreign debt to the UN Human Rights Commissioner, said in a speech in Athens.

By Katharine Houreld HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's security forces are routinely accused of murder, rape and corruption on a grand scale, but a new anti-corruption police unit's sole conviction last year was a junior policeman who forged some documents, the head of the unit told Reuters.