November, 2014
Wind power in Ilocos project: 233 GWh/yr
November 14, 2014 ·
BURGOS, Ilocos Norte—Strong and steady winds blowing year-round in the northern tip of Luzon mainland have solidified the reputation of Ilocos Norte province as a major player in renewable energy production, especially with the commissioning of a 150-megawatt wind power plant in this town.
Read More...Pakistani Christian couple brutally killed by mob for alleged ‘blasphemy’
November 14, 2014 ·
A Pakistani mob beat to near-death a Christian and his pregnant wife for her alleged ‘blasphemy’, then threw them both into the large kiln where they both worked as bonded laborers.
The incident happened on Tuesday 4th Nov, some 60 kilometers from Lahore, the capital of Punjab in central Pakistan – in Chak 59 village, Kot Radha Kishan.
Read More...Teen accused of making, possessing child porn
November 14, 2014 ·
PLANT CITY, Fla. — A Florida teenager has been charged with more than 100 counts relating to possession of child pornography and lewd and lascivious molestation.
Read More...Foreigners forced into prostitution in ‘juicy bars’: report
November 13, 2014 ·
The broadcaster aired an interview with one of the Filipina women who claimed to have been coerced into sexual slavery.
Read More...Paedophile hunters: the vigilantes taking the law into their own hands
November 13, 2014 ·
The pair of underage girls groomed for sex by a 50-year-old paedophile, Peter Mitchell, could not attend his sentencing at Derby crown court on Tuesday for one simple reason: they did not exist.
Read More...Child sex abuse review: impossible to prove a cover-up.
November 12, 2014 ·
A review of the Home Office’s handling of paedophile ring allegations in the 1970s, 80s and 90s has ruled it is impossible to say whether there was a cover-up.
The probe by Peter Wanless – chief executive of the NSPCC children’s charity – looked at how the Home Office dealt with information handed over by the late Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, as well as other allegations in 114 missing, lost or destroyed files.
Author John Grisham claims prison sentences for viewing child sex abuse images are too 'harsh'
November 12, 2014 ·
Millionaire author John Grisham has claimed many of the men who access child sex abuse images should not receive such harsh sentences.
Mr Grisham, 59, said: “We have prisons now filled with guys my age. 60-year-old white men in prison who’ve never harmed anybody, would never touch a c
Read More...No more hiding
November 11, 2014 ·
by Trish Kaye Lleone It took me thirty years to accept what happened to me and to go on full disclosure. No one in my family knew that I was being raped for years until I was 19. But even then, nothing happened so I’d lost hope and thought that I deserved what happened to […]
Read More...Tacloban, one year later
November 10, 2014 ·
It was a painful and difficult story for Josephine, 15 years old, and her father Jose to tell. I sat on a small plastic chair in their small, one-roomed house that they built from the wreckage of Haiyan (Yolanda), the greatest typhoon ever to hit land. Josephine sat close to her father who was aged beyond his years. When I arrived in their little home made of plywood sheets with Francis Bermido Jr., the Preda executive director, Jose was repairing an electric motor. It was his only source of livelihood for his surviving children.
Read More...CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA
November 10, 2014 ·
CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA contact www.preda.org , [email protected] RAC, the ‘Reception & Action Center’ Manila, is a shelter run by the City of Manila for children and adults. Every day children from all over Manila, particularly those without safe family environments, are ‘rescued’ and taken to RAC. […]
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