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Child Sexual Exploitation and the Internet (September 2003)
September 7, 2003 · By Childwise, ECPAT
PERTH
A Perth man has recently been charged with molesting three girls he met in a webs chat room. Police allege that the 31 year old man met the three girls aged 14 and 15 via a chat room in February this year and later asked them to come to his home.
Read More...A Report on the Sexual abuse of Children in Puerto Galera
September 7, 2003 ·
On January 13, Mrs. Florentina Garcia a grade school teacher noticed irregular behaviour from one of her students and requested that the child be interviewed by the school principal, Emelie de los Reyes. During the interview, the girl disclosed that she and a friend had been sleeping with Paul Jeffrey Anderson who is known to them as “PJ” and described their experiences in detail, the sexual acts of oral sex, penetration and fingering.
Read More...Indian Girls for Sale for $90
September 5, 2003 ·
In the Northern Indian city of Haryana which has just 820 women for every 1000 men a huge market has developed for under age girls who are sold for less that US$90, about fifth of the price of a buffalo. The Hindustan Times reports trafficking of the minor girls for sex or marriage came to [...]
Read More...Child Trafficking on the Rise
September 4, 2003 ·
The United Nations Children Fund estimates that approximately $1.2 million children are trafficked year for $10 (USD) billion. In a recently published report “End Child Exploitation: Stop the Traffic” UNICEF noted that there had been a 20% increase in child prostitutes in Thailand in the last three years and 15% of the girls trafficked from [...]
Read More...Philippines- a main source of human trafficking
September 3, 2003 ·
The United States has identified the Philippines as a main source and transit of human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation. According to the US State Department’s Trafficking In Persons Report the Philippines was a source, transit and to a lesser extent destination country for persons trafficked for labour and sexual exploitation. The report cited [...]
Read More...Extradition Hearing
September 2, 2003 ·
Clint Rex Betteridge, will face an extradition hearing on 26th September 2003. Betteridge was convicted in Absentia in Cambodia on child sex charges after he fled the country with a replacement passport. The Cambodian Government is seeking Betteridge’s return to Cambodia to serve the ten year sentence handed down by the Cambodian Court. Fellow Australian [...]
Read More...Aid Worker Jailed for Child Sex
September 1, 2003 ·
A British former aid worker has been jailed for 9 years by an Ethiopian court for sexually abusing children in development/aid programs. David Allen, 62, was found guilty and sentenced by the High Court in Addis Ababa in August 2003. Allen was jailed for crimes that took place in 1995 when he ran an orphanage [...]
Read More...Only a Dream
July 29, 2003 · By Christina from Spain
I am in a place in a third world one wonderful, sunny and hot day. I am looking around me and it seems to be that I am in paradise. Palms join the edge of the sea and the wind coming from the seaside caresses them gently. My friend Pedro who is with me says [...]
Read More...ROMANIA Ratifies International Convention Banning Child Labour
July 12, 2003 ·
Romania has ratified the ILO Convention on Worst Forms of Child Labour. The ILO programme introduced in Romania for the first time enjoys financial support from the US administration (600,000 USD) and will span two years.
Read More...PRIX CARITAS AWARD
July 10, 2003 ·
An international award of achievement was presented to Irish Columban Father Shay Cullen this July 10th at the Lucern Culture and Congress Center by the Catholic development organization Caritas Switzerland. The newly established prize recognizes outstanding achievements in the international field for the protection of human rights under adverse circumstances. Fr. Cullen, 60, from Glasthule-Sandycove, [...]
Read More...17 Million Latin American Children Work
April 18, 2003 ·
One out of five Latin American children, or more than 17 million, work in the unofficial economic sector and in rural areas, the International Labor Organization said yesterday. In conjunction with the Guatemalan non-governmental organisation Intervida and Save the Children, Norway the ILO said the countries with the highest rates of child labour in Latin [...]
Read More...ASIA: young people facing unprecedented health risks from drug-taking and HIV/AIDS
April 16, 2003 ·
Children and young people in Asia are facing unprecedented health risks from HIV/AIDS and other diseases due to the rapid spread of amphetamine-type drug abuse, UNICEF warned today. Speaking at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Robert Bennoun, UNICEF Regional Advisor on HIV/AIDS, highlighted an urgent need for more effective and [...]
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