1. Canada plans to send 20 police to Iraq to advise on gender diversity, human rights

The police officers, both men and women, will support efforts to re-establish a local police presence in areas newly liberated from ISIL control and advise their Iraqi counterparts on issues such as gender, diversity and human rights. There now are three Canadian police officers in Iraq, with a fourth going in the next month. Others will be sent in gradually over the next two years.

2. Hungarian news report: France is the world's largest internet censor

3. Eighteen more people convicted of running what is easily described as a child sex slave gang

Eighteen people have been convicted of abusing girls in Newcastle who were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to have sex. The vulnerable victims, some as young as 14, were exploited by a "cynical organisation", a court heard. The 17 men and one woman were convicted of rape, supplying drugs and conspiracy to incite prostitution. Over the course of four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014. These trials involved 26 defendants, who were mostly Asian, facing a total of more than 100 charges and 22 victims. Those prosecuted were from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish communities and mainly British-born, with most living in the West End of Newcastle.

The Daily Mail:

'All white women are good for one thing': Chilling outburst of member of 18-strong Asian sex gang - including a white woman - who groomed vulnerable girls as young as 13 with M-Cat before raping them. Over the course of four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014. Those prosecuted were from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish communities and were mainly British-born, with most living in the West End of Newcastle.

4. British model lured to Italy, drugged and held by gang who sell kidnapped women “to Middle Eastern men”

From The Evening Standard:

London model Chloe Ayling was 'kidnapped to order by gang for Middle Eastern men’ Chloe Ayling, 20, was allegedly abducted in Milan and detained for six days while her captor tried to auction her online. Italian police suspect she was drugged and transported in a bag to Borgial, an isolated village near Turin, before being released on July 17. Ms Ayling arrived back at her home in Coulsdon, south London, yesterday and said she had been through a “terrifying experience.”

5. UK police paid £10,000 to child rapist