April, 2000
Prosecutor’s Resolution
April 25, 2000 ·
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This is a complaint for Libel filed by Davao City Mayor Benjamin C. de Guzman against Father Shay Cullen, an Irish Catholic Missionary and the President and Executive Director of People’s Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance (PREDA) Foundation Inc., based in Olongapo City.
Read More...BI Deports Convicted Swiss Pedophile
April 20, 2000 ·
Published in The Manila Times (April 20, 2000) THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) the other day deported a Swiss national wanted in his country for being convicted as a pedophile. Immigration Commissioner Rufus Rodriguez said Roland Suphaphon alias Roland Willi, was deported to Switzerland Tuesday following his arrest last week inside a Quezon City restaurant […]
Read More...Mayor in trouble for Saying Kids Enjoy
April 17, 2000 ·
DUMAGUETE CITY-He probably just wanted to earn “pogi points” before media, but Mayor Edsel Enardecido of Ayungon town in Negros Oriental Saturday found out too late that he had instead put his foot in his mouth.
Read More...US senators want curbs on 'sex slave' traffic
April 13, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON-Two senators want to see life sentences imposed on people who bring young children into the country to work as ‘sex slaves’. Democratic senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Sam Brownback of Kansas plan separate bills aimed at cracking down on an illegal industry the CIA said brings 50,000 women and girls into this country […]
Read More...Anti-pedophile video aired
April 12, 2000 ·
GENEVA – Swissair will show an anti-child-sex video on certain routes, the company announced last week.
Read More...Vatican Calls For Action Against Prostitution
April 12, 2000 ·
VATICAN CITY, APR 12 (ZENIT.org).- The Vatican called on the international community to intervene against prostitution and other exploitation of women, children, and illegal finmigrants.
Read More...Global Plan Urged Against 'Slave Trade'
April 12, 2000 ·
MANILA – The United States has called for a global plan of action to combat the multi billion-dollar slave trade of women and children for the sex industry or bonded labor, which officials say snares at least one million victims every year.
Read More...13 Convicts on Death Row are over 70 yrs old, say Lawyers
April 7, 2000 ·
AT least 13 of the 981 men now on death row are more than 70 years old and should have been given the lighter sentence of reclusion perpetual the Free Legal Assistant Group (Flag) said yesterday.
Maria Socono Diokno, Flag secretary general, noted that the elderly inmates, mostly convicted rapists, have been languishing at the maximum security compound of the New Bilibid Prisons awaiting the Supreme Court’s review of their cases.
Read More...Vatican Lauds Moratorium on RP Executions
April 3, 2000 ·
WHERE there used to be only death and persecution, lights were turned on last week to celebrate the moratorium on executions in the Philippines.
The Vatican’on Saturday lighted up the ancient Roman Colosseum as a message that Philippine government leaders have been enlightened to respect the value of human life, according to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Teodoro Bacani.
Read More...Vatican Lauds Moratorium on RP Executions
April 3, 2000 ·
Published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (April 03, 2000) WHERE there used to be only death and persecution, lights were turned on last week to celebrate the moratorium on executions in the Philippines. The Vatican’on Saturday lighted up the ancient Roman Colosseum as a message that Philippine government leaders have been enlightened to respect the […]
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