August, 2002
Philippine News Digest 137
August 30, 2002 ·
Contents: Gang selling women to sex den operators Cambodia turning into child-sex haven Solon wants illicit trade of human organs, tissues stopped Gang selling women to sex den operators The Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) ordered its personnels to be more strict in screening Filipino women departing for the United Arab Emirates amidst reports […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 34
August 21, 2002 ·
Contents: 10 minors moved out of death row Solons pressure governments to ratify the ICC 10 minors moved out of death row Ten of the 12 minors on death row were transferred to the medium security compound of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) August 19, at least three weeks after the Supreme Court issued the […]
Read More...ITALY GATEWAY TO EUROPE FOR CHILD SEX SLAVES
August 12, 2002 ·
Rome — Italy is a main gateway into Europe for children sold into sex slavery, lured from poverty into a trade worth US $7 billion a year world-wide, delegates at a conference on child trafficking were told. Each year some 6,000 children aged between 12 and 16 are victims of child trafficking, according to a […]
Read More...AUSTRALIANS FEED CAMBODIAN CHILD SEX TRADE
August 12, 2002 ·
According to ECPAT Australia, hundreds of Australian men are flocking to Cambodia to have sex with girls and boys sold in brothels. In Cambodia, brothels openly thrive and sex with a girl aged 10 to 13 costs $30. Cambodian women’s affairs minister Mu Sochua told that corruption in the legal system and government in difference […]
Read More...Kids In Perilous Work
August 12, 2002 ·
Many of 300,000 employed in cocoa production not paid The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Labour Department released key findings that indicate that some 284,000 child labourers work in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms in West Africa, 200,000 of whom work in Cote d’Ivoire and most of whom work alongside their families. […]
Read More...Us Issues Report On Child Labour
August 12, 2002 ·
The Labour Department released the first annual report on the worst forms of child labour in 143 trade beneficiary countries and territories as required under the Trade and Development Act of 2000. Under this act, trade beneficiary countries and territories are required to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. […]
Read More...Philippines Time-Bound Program Agreement Signed
August 12, 2002 ·
US Deputy Under Secretary for International Labour Affairs Thomas B. Moorhead, Philippines Secretary of Labour Patricia Santo Tomas and Philippines Secretary of Education Raul Roco signed a collaborative agreement on a Timebound Program to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the Philippines. The agreement commits both countries to work together on a number […]
Read More...PHILIPPINES: Bill on Domestic Child Workers
August 12, 2002 ·
Visayan Forum Foundation (VF) an organisation that works with child domestic workers is close to a breakthrough on a landmark bill. This bill could make the difference to hundreds of thousands of exploited child and adult domestic workers throughout the Philippines. Child domestic workers in particular toil far from home at the expense of their […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 33
August 5, 2002 ·
Contents: Study find boys hide sexual abuse Vietnam tighten curbs on adoptions Human progress improving- UN Study find boys hide sexual abuse A new study from the University of South Australia has found that boys generally keep silent about sexual abuse and use a variety of techniques to mask the effects of the abuse. It […]
Read More...Prawn Units Stinks of Child Labour
August 4, 2002 ·
Kolkata, India — Cases of child labour exploitation have been reported from the coastal districts of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Orissa, where the children are being engaged in the prawn cultivation, processing and packaging industry. The Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), an NGO based near the city, has caught on video instances of child […]
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