April, 2016
Child sex abuse images increasingly being found and removed
April 22, 2016 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.bbc.com
Nearly 70,000 pictures and videos showing child sex abuse have been removed from the internet in the past year, the UK charity leading the efforts to combat the abuse has said. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) was given more powers in 2014 to actively search for such images and take action. The content it found […]
Read More...Social Workers Charged After Abused Boy Beaten to Death
April 22, 2016 · By Evann Gastaldo for www.newser.com/a>
(NEWSER) – In what the Los Angeles Times describes as a “rare” move, social workers have been charged with a crime following the death of a child. Gabriel Fernandez, 8, died in Palmdale in 2013 after his mother and her boyfriend allegedly tortured him—pepper spraying him, making him eat his vomit, stuffing a sock in […]
Read More...From Paris to New York, climate pact to cross next hurdle
April 21, 2016 · By Agence France-Presse for www.rappler.com
More than 160 nations gather in New York on April 22 to ink the pact whose execution demands a radical overhaul of the global economy PARIS, France – Four months after settling on a plan to stave off calamitous global warming, more than 160 nations gather in New York Friday, April 22, to ink the […]
Read More...Pope Francis Archbishop Ieronymos, Patriarch Bartholomew, challenge to the world.
April 19, 2016 ·
Pope Francis Archbishop Ieronymos, Patriarch Bartholomew, challenge to the world. Cindy Wooden Reporter Archbishop Ieronymos, speaking at the refugee camp, said he hoped to never again “see children washing up on the shores of the Aegean.” The Orthodox archbishop spoke with pride of the Greek people who have opened their hearts and even their homes to the […]
Read More...Duterte refuses to say sorry for rape remark.
April 19, 2016 ·
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Rodrigo Duterte won’t apologize, the presidency be damned. Blame his controversial statement on the raped Australian missionary on “gutter language” from his childhood days, said the presidential bet in his statement caught on video. He was responding to public outrage over a “joke” he made during his campaign rally in Amoranto Stadium on […]
Read More...US forces to gain access to more PH bases – Carter
April 18, 2016 · By Rapller.com for www.rappler.com
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who is now in Manila, says more military bases will be added to the initial 5 agreed upon MANILA, Philippines – US forces will gain access to more military bases in the Philippines than the 5 already announced, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday, April 13, as he began […]
Read More...Cannabis: scientists call for action amid mental health concerns
April 18, 2016 · By Ian Sample for www.theguardian.com
Warning reflects growing consensus that frequent use of the drug raises the risk of psychotic disorders in vulnerable people The risks of heavy cannabis for mental health are serious enough to warrant global public health campaigns, according to international drugs experts who said young people were particularly vulnerable. The warning from scientists in the UK, […]
Read More...The Daily Crime against Humanity
April 14, 2016 ·
The Daily Crime against Humanity Fr. Shay Cullen I drove from Olongapo City to Subic town recently and pointed to the journalist the row of shuttered, dilapidated and closed-down sex bars that lined the road at Calapandayan, Subic. It is evidence of the success of an anti-trafficking operation conducted by the Preda Foundation social workers […]
Read More...Why ?
April 14, 2016 · By Heinz Hof
Why? Why are you, child, behind bars? What have you done? What have only the adults done to you? Did you beg on the prestigious shopping street for money? Did you bother the rich with your outstretched, questioning, pleading, imploring dirty hands? Did you put a chocolate candy in your mouth in a deli? Perhaps […]
Read More...Can you stop a paedophile before they’ve abused a child?
April 14, 2016 · By Dominic Casciani for www.bbc.com
Can you stop a paedophile before they’ve abused a child? That’s the aim of a unique clinical trial in Sweden that aims to intervene in the lives of potential abusers. And it’s a trial that raises ethical and legal questions about whether societies can come up with therapies for the most dangerous offenders before they […]
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