August, 2012
The Aeta community expands,ten new solid houses
August 31, 2012 ·
Roofing the homes of Aeta settlers. disaster relief project of Trocaire/Preda/ Papaht,ongoing. The Aeta community expands,ten new solid houses for victims of ecological disaster.
Read More...BARRICADE VS LEPANTO DEFIES NCIP-LED POLICE Guns versus pine wood, police versus women and children
August 30, 2012 · , http://opinyon.com.ph/index.php/columnist/read/barricade-vs-lepanto-defies-ncip-led-police-guns-versus-pine-wood--police-versus-women-and-children
[This article is based on a field trip hosted by the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA), which leads the opposition against large scale mining and supports small- scale mining in the Cordillera mountain province.] ON JULY 24, 2012, a composite of about 30 armed policemen and Lepanto Mines security guards led by National Commission on Indigenous […]
Read More...End child labor pact signed
August 30, 2012 · , press release OneWorld .net 28 August 2012
MoU signed between ILO and SAIEVAC to promote child rights A “momentous partnership” agreement to promote children’s rights and child protection in South Asia has been signed by the Regional Secretariat of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new Memorandum […]
Read More...The Paralympics truly all-conquering athletes
August 30, 2012 · , http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/163122
London’s Paralympics, starting next week, have the potential to serve as a watershed in the way society as a whole regards people with a disability. The competitors will be as fit and physically honed as any of their predecessors in the London Olympic Games. The physical and mental skills required to be a top-class wheelchair […]
Read More...THE CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE – Justice for Abused Children
August 29, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
THE CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE – Justice for Abused Children by Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) The Supreme Court Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has been appointed as the first female Chief Justice of the […]
Read More...Wife of notorious Paedophile freed
August 29, 2012 · , Wikipedia
Michelle Martin the wife and accomplice of murder child abuser and Paedophile Marc Dutrox who was jailed for 30 years was given parole and freedom after 13 years in jail in a controversy that has opened up wounds of anger in Belgium. She will stay at a convent fifty miles from Brussels. Dutroux is held […]
Read More...Paedophile's accomplice and former wife released from prison early
August 29, 2012 · , Ian Traynor Brussels guardian.co.uk
The accomplice and former wife of a Belgian paedophile and murderer has been allowed to go free after serving half her sentence for involvement in child abductions, rapes and murders that plunged the national judicial system into crisis. Michelle Martin, the former wife of Marc Dutroux, who received a 30-year sentence for aiding and abetting […]
Read More...Obstacles concerning access to justice and protection for indigenous people
August 29, 2012 · , by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-first session, Agenda Item 3, half-day discussion on indigenous peoples: access to Justice A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the range of reports concerning the human rights of indigenous people during the upcoming […]
Read More...Hundreds of Christian children raped or killed
August 28, 2012 · , http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32088&lan=eng
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a “discussion on religion.” The boy was savagely beaten and then thrown, unconscious, in a channel. There are stories, besides this one, that emerged on the international […]
Read More...CHILDREN PROTEST DANGEROUS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
August 28, 2012 · , http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3824731.ece
The protests by children at Kudankulam against the nuclear plant demonstrate the power of peaceful resistance, in contrast to the hardened, anti-people, anti-democratic stance of those in power The ongoing peaceful protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KKNPP), which began in the early 1980s intensified after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The protests […]
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