July, 2017
Rio’s Valongo slave wharf becomes Unesco heritage site
July 11, 2017 · By Latin America & Caribbean for www.bbc.com
A wharf in Rio de Janeiro where nearly a million African slaves are estimated to have landed has been declared a World Heritage site by the UN cultural organisation, Unesco. The Valongo wharf operated for three centuries and became the biggest entry point for African slaves in Brazil. Its remains were discovered during renovation work […]
Read More...Bad blood between Japan and Korea persists
July 11, 2017 · By Asia for www.bbc.com
In August the countries around the Pacific will mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to end the Second World War – and already that anniversary is re-opening old wounds. If you doubt the strength of feeling that still exists against Japan, just go to the Japanese embassy in the South Korean capital. All embassies […]
Read More...‘Comfort women’: Researchers claim first known film
July 11, 2017 · By Asia for www.bbc.com
South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of “comfort women” forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two. Filmed by US troops in China, the clip was found by government-funded researchers at Seoul National University in US archives. The 18-second clip shows several women lined […]
Read More...El Salvador teen rape victim sentenced to 30 years in prison after stillbirth
July 10, 2017 · By Nina Lakhani for www.theguardian.com
A high school student was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek antenatal care amounted to murder, after giving birth in a bathroom in 2016 Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, 19, from a small rural community in Cuscatlán, eastern El Salvador, was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek antenatal care amounted to murder. […]
Read More...Untreatable gonorrhoea ‘superbug’ spreading around world, WHO warns
July 10, 2017 · By James Rudd and agencies for www.theguardian.com
World Health Organization tells of ‘very serious situation’ after confirming three known cases where all antibiotics were ineffective Untreatable strains of gonorrhoea are on the rise, the World Health Organization has warned, fuelling fears that last-resort drugs will soon be futile after three confirmed cases in which antibiotics were ineffective. Gonorrhoea is the second most […]
Read More...Secretary of State Tillerson “Some of the Most Devastating Examples of Sex Trafficking are Brought on by Authority Figures”
July 10, 2017 · By Jon Robberson for www.hagmannreport.com
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that some of the most devastating examples of sex trafficking are brought on by authority figures that should be working to protect members of society especially the most vulnerable such as children. Unfortunately, when most people think about the business of kids being sold as sex slaves […]
Read More...Davao archbishop is new CBCP president
July 10, 2017 · By Julie M. Aurelio - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Davao has just contributed another president to the country, a development that could mean better relations between the Church and the current administration. Aside from former Davao City Mayor, now President Rodrigo Duterte, another luminary from Davao is its archbishop, Romulo Valles, who has been elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines […]
Read More...Criminalizing Children in Jails
July 7, 2017 ·
Criminalizing Children in Jails Fr. Shay Cullen 7 July 2017 If you are able to visit the child detention centers in Metro Manila and other places in the Philippines, you will see the gaunt young faces of bored, frightened, malnourished 10- to 16-year old boys and girls looking out sadly depressed through steel bars. They […]
Read More...Call for a ban on child sex robots
July 7, 2017 · By Jane Wakefield, Technology Reporter for www.bbc.com
There should be a ban on the import of sex robots designed to look like children, the author of a new report into the phenomenon has said. Prof Noel Sharkey said that society as a whole needed to consider the impact of all types of sex robots. His Foundation for Responsible Robotics has conducted a […]
Read More...Horror story of child abuse *
July 6, 2017 · By Gyasi Gonzales for www.trinidadexpress.com
RELATIVES of a 40-year-old woman seen on a cellphone video mercilessly beating her child with a handbag said they had reported her to the police five times before but she only got questioned then detained after they released the footage on social media. The mother of eight remained in custody up to last night after […]
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