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Vatican Calls For Action Against Prostitution
April 12, 2000 ·
VATICAN CITY, APR 12 (ZENIT.org).- The Vatican called on the international community to intervene against prostitution and other exploitation of women, children, and illegal finmigrants.
Read More...Global Plan Urged Against ‘Slave Trade’
April 12, 2000 ·
MANILA – The United States has called for a global plan of action to combat the multi billion-dollar slave trade of women and children for the sex industry or bonded labor, which officials say snares at least one million victims every year.
Read More...13 Convicts on Death Row are over 70 yrs old, say Lawyers
April 7, 2000 ·
AT least 13 of the 981 men now on death row are more than 70 years old and should have been given the lighter sentence of reclusion perpetual the Free Legal Assistant Group (Flag) said yesterday.
Maria Socono Diokno, Flag secretary general, noted that the elderly inmates, mostly convicted rapists, have been languishing at the maximum security compound of the New Bilibid Prisons awaiting the Supreme Court’s review of their cases.
Read More...Vatican Lauds Moratorium on RP Executions
April 3, 2000 ·
WHERE there used to be only death and persecution, lights were turned on last week to celebrate the moratorium on executions in the Philippines.
The Vatican’on Saturday lighted up the ancient Roman Colosseum as a message that Philippine government leaders have been enlightened to respect the value of human life, according to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Teodoro Bacani.
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
Read More...UN Urges Action on Millions of Asian Trafficking Victims
March 29, 2000 ·
BANGKOK – Nine million people have been enslaved in the global sex trade or forced to work in appalling conditions by powerful crime syndicates active in human trafficking, according to a new United Nations report.
Read More...Internet a ‘Safe Haven’ for Child Abusers
March 26, 2000 ·
BRUSSELS – Too little is being done to combat pedophilia on the Internet, according to participants to an international conference in Brussels on child abuse.
Read More...5-month-old girl Abducted, Raped
March 8, 2000 ·
TACLOBAN, CITY – couple Eduardo and Alicia Villamor were both full of excitement as the made preparations for the baptism of their five-month-old girl on March 4.
Read More...Young Girls Sold for Sex, Flown to US
March 4, 2000 ·
Filipino girls – unless accompanied by their parents – will not be allowed to leave the country following reports that many of them are being sold to Amercian men through tour packages.
Read More...Shift in Sex Tourism
March 4, 2000 ·
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The sexual exploitation of girls and boys, largely by men from the United States, has reached alarming proportions in Central America, according to children’s rights advocates who say the region is now a priority in their struggle against child prostitution and pornography.
Read More...10-yr-old accused of raping 3-yr-old
March 4, 2000 ·
He’s too young to be in jail but the crime he is accused of is one for adults.
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER March 2000
March 2, 2000 ·
Dear friends and supporters of Children’s and Women’s Rights Peadophile Gets Bishop and Clergy Support – Victims Ignored We at the PREDA Foundation, now 26 years old, caring for sexually abused women and children and are combating a Paedophile Support Ring based in Olongapo city, Philippines for several years. We have helped convict several of [...]
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