March, 2014
RELIGIONS UNITE AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS
March 31, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It was a solemn moment in the great meeting hall in the Vatican where the joint agreement and statement was to be signed by the representatives of the great world religions. It was not some lofty, irrelevant declaration to work for mutual respect for different faiths but to launch the “Global Freedom […]
Read More...Philippine Fair Trade Manager Assassinated
March 28, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Fair trade is all about working for justice, for the poor, the downtrodden, the impoverished and exploited people. It strives to lift them up to a life of dignity and greater opportunity in a non-violent, peaceful way through economic development. Fair Trade is a practical way to respect the rights and […]
Read More...PREDA's Freedom Weekend
March 27, 2014 ·
The support of runners, walkers, comedy lovers, local media and our sponsors helped make PREDA’s “Freedom Weekend” a huge success. Catherina McKiernan was to the fore in leading a field of hundreds of runners and walkers around two laps of the famed Ballybrit course. Against the odds the sun shone and rain was absent. Comedian Maeve […]
Read More...POPE FRANCIS TO ERADICATE MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
March 26, 2014 ·
Vatican City, 17 March 2014 (VIS) – This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the “Global Freedom Network”, an agreement between the representatives of the great world religions to eradicate modern forms of slavery and human trafficking, in collaboration with the Walk Free Foundation. The speakers at […]
Read More...German politician Edathy rejects child porn allegation
March 25, 2014 ·
(SPD) Sebastian Edathy denied on Tuesday a local newspaper’s claim that a police search of his home in northern Germany was linked to child pornography. The politician who last year presented the German parliament’s acclaimed report on bungled police probes into a neo-Nazi murder spree has denied a media allegation of possessing child pornography. […]
Read More...Child pornography's legal grey zone
March 25, 2014 ·
A German ex-parliamentarian is being investigated for possessing child pornography. Prosecutors and other experts are often forced to make difficult distinctions on whether a given image crosses the line into illegality. Arnd Hüneke, a criminal law expert at the University of Hannover, When it comes to the legal definition of child pornography in Germany, a […]
Read More...PH offers US use of bases
March 25, 2014 ·
Final deal seen before Obama visit next month Philippine Daily Inquirer 2:53 am | Saturday, March 15th, 2014 The Philippines has agreed to allow the United States access to the countrys military bases under a new security deal being negotiated by the two allies, amid mounting concern over China¹s increasing assertiveness in the disputed waters […]
Read More...FAIR TRADE PIONEER ASSASSINATED
March 25, 2014 ·
Militants say death squads behind killing of Panay fair trade manager By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. Inquirer Visayas 12:04 am | Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 OTON, Philippines‹Why did they have to kill him? He was good person who had helped many of us who are poor, said Ma. Theresa Mediavilla. Mediavilla said workers of […]
Read More...Dark record
March 25, 2014 ·
Dark record Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:11 am | Monday, March 24th, 2014 Read more: http://opinion.inquirer.net/72901/dark-record#ixzz2wxb6uM4r Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook A week before a joint police-military operation captured Benito Tiamzon, chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army, together with his wife Wilma and five others in Carcar, Cebu, unknown gunmen killed Romeo […]
Read More...UK paedophiles pay to watch webcam child sex abuse in Philippines
March 25, 2014 ·
By Angus Crawford BBC News The ‘cybersex den’ in Ibabao where abuse is said to have taken place British paedophiles are paying to watch the abuse of children in the Philippines via webcams, a BBC investigation has found. In one case, a British man organised the sexual abuse of five children from the […]
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