May, 2011
RALLY TO THE CALL SAY UNICEF AND NGOs
May 12, 2011 ·
Governments to be Pressured by a Global Movement for Children A 10-point ‘Rallying Call for the Global Movement for Children’ is to be unveiled by UNICEF and some of its NGO partners at the end of this week’s PrepCom. The purpose of the Rallying Call is to mobilise a grassroots campaign in support of children […]
Read More...INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO STRESS THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN ANEW
May 12, 2011 ·
THE TEN POINTS OF THE PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGN SUPPORTED BY PREDA ARE THE FOLLOWING: 1. Leave No Child Out: Because every girl and boy is born free and equal in dignity and rights, all forms of discrimination and exclusion against children must end. 2. Put Children First: Governments must meet their obligations to children and […]
Read More...Ecpat: Child Sex Abuse And Social Customs [Study]
May 12, 2011 ·
A recent report released by the Bangkok-based international child protection campaign group, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), found that socially accepted customs are being used to shelter child sexual abuse in various countries. The report highlights that though child marriages are unlawful in many countries, they are […]
Read More...A Report on the Sexual abuse of Children in Puerto Galera
May 12, 2011 ·
Oriental Mindoro, Philippines On January 13, Mrs. Florentina Garcia a grade school teacher noticed irregular behaviour from one of her students and requested that the child be interviewed by the school principal, Emelie de los Reyes. During the interview, the girl disclosed that she and a friend had been sleeping with Paul Jeffrey Anderson who […]
Read More...Two Minor Boys on the road of Execution in PAKISTAN
May 12, 2011 ·
Two minor boys, Muhammad Rafique and Sohail Fida are on death row having been awarded capital punishment by a court in the Swat district of Pakistan. Though capital punishment is abolished in Pakistan, under Pakistan’s Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2002, these two minor boys do not fall under the jurisdiction of the ordinance and […]
Read More...The world's deadliest epidemic: 20 years & counting
May 12, 2011 ·
TWENTY YEARS AGO in June1981, the first official report of the disease now known as AIDS was made in a nine-paragraph report of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control. Five people were affected. No one reading those nine paragraphs could know that they were looking at what would become the most devastating epidemic in […]
Read More...UN ENVOY REPORTS NO EVIDENCE OF 'CHILD SOLDIERING' IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
May 12, 2011 ·
A top United Nations expert on the impact of armed conflict on children said that during a recent visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia he had seen no systematic use of child soldiers and found no evidence of child abuse in refugee camps. Olara Otunnu, Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, […]
Read More...Gunrunner
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Guardian Unlimited Reports (http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,519661,00.html) (July 09, 2001) The world is awash with guns – at least 550 million of them. An endless cheap supply of small arms has spawned an epidemic of killing. In a three-part series, Guardian writers hunt down the dealers, talk to the victims and ask what can be done […]
Read More...Paedophile panic sweeps soccer clubs in Kerala
May 12, 2011 ·
Wayanad (Kerala), March 30: Several football clubs for children in Kerala are in a panic after discovering on Sunday that their Belgian coach of over four years is a paedophile who had served five years in jail for sexually abusing children back home. Jozef Achtergael, 57, was released in 2000 after doing five years of […]
Read More...Dutch Charged With Child Abuse
May 12, 2011 ·
Alexander Ferdinand Martin Robin Wilson – Dutch, was charged with violation of RA 7610 when he forced to live-in with him, a 17-year old Filipina in Olongapo City. PREDA received the report from his business partner whom he duped and after PREDA contacted the mother of the child, a rescue operation was coordinated by PREDA […]
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