Topic: Child Abuse
Taking the war to the sex traffickers Movement mobilizes church to rescue victims of child-porn industry
October 8, 2012 · By Drew Zahn
DES MOINES, Iowa – On Oct. 19, a new army will be recruited to combat the frightening abduction of thousands of children in the U.S. each year, some of whom are subject to sexual abuse and even slavery. The 10th Preventing Abuse Conference will convene at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines to inform, equip [...]
Read More...Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime
September 20, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Child Trafficking a Heinous Crime by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: shaycullen@preda.org (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Dublin, Ireland. The most heinous crime one can think of is the abduction, trafficking, sale, rape and sexual abuse of little children. It’s a horrific [...]
Read More...New law punishes hacking, online libel, Internet child porn
September 19, 2012 · , Gian C. Geronimo, TJD/HS, GMA News
Philippine authorities just got more teeth against computer-related offenses such as hacking, child pornography, and even online libel, after President Aquino signed the Cybercrime Prevention law. Defense lawyers have used the absence of a law to argue against punishing hackers and bloggers who attack the reputations of others. Turning frequent acts on the Internet into [...]
Read More...End child labor pact signed
August 30, 2012 · , press release OneWorld .net 28 August 2012
MoU signed between ILO and SAIEVAC to promote child rights A “momentous partnership” agreement to promote children’s rights and child protection in South Asia has been signed by the Regional Secretariat of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new Memorandum [...]
Read More...Wife of notorious Paedophile freed
August 29, 2012 · , Wikipedia
Michelle Martin the wife and accomplice of murder child abuser and Paedophile Marc Dutrox who was jailed for 30 years was given parole and freedom after 13 years in jail in a controversy that has opened up wounds of anger in Belgium. She will stay at a convent fifty miles from Brussels. Dutroux is held [...]
Read More...Paedophile’s accomplice and former wife released from prison early
August 29, 2012 · , Ian Traynor Brussels guardian.co.uk
The accomplice and former wife of a Belgian paedophile and murderer has been allowed to go free after serving half her sentence for involvement in child abductions, rapes and murders that plunged the national judicial system into crisis. Michelle Martin, the former wife of Marc Dutroux, who received a 30-year sentence for aiding and abetting [...]
Read More...Hundreds of Christian children raped or killed
August 28, 2012 · , http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32088&lan=eng
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a “discussion on religion.” The boy was savagely beaten and then thrown, unconscious, in a channel. There are stories, besides this one, that emerged on the international [...]
Read More...Atlanta’s faith community unites to tackle sexual exploitation of kids
August 3, 2012 · , Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service , http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2012/07/atlantas-faith-community-unites-tackle-sexual-exploitation-kids
NORCROSS, Ga. (CNS) — Crystal Ward works hard helping people to think in new ways about the commercial sex industry and its victims. Young girls being forced to sell themselves for sex are not prostitutes, she told a group of 30 church leaders from throughout metropolitan Atlanta; the girls are victims of sexual exploitation in [...]
Read More...Woman mentors girls to save them from becoming victims of trafficking.
August 3, 2012 · , http://www.catholicsun.org/2012/07/24/woman-mentors-girls-to-save-them-from-becoming-victims-of-trafficking/
ATLANTA (CNS) — The girls Keisha Head mentors today remind her of herself 15 or 20 years ago. They are from the margins: runaways from tough family circumstances, truant from school or on probation from the Fulton County Juvenile Court for one offense or another. And all are potential targets of predators looking to commercially [...]
Read More...Violence and child abuse, red alert in Sri Lanka
August 3, 2012 · , Melani Manel Perera, Colombo (AsiaNews via CNUA)http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Violence-and-child-abuse,-red-alert-in-Sri-Lanka-25366.html
Colombo (AsiaNews) – It is red alert in Sri Lanka as incidents of violence, rapes and child abuse continues to grow: from January 2012, 975 cases were registered by the police and 20 thousand complaints received by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA). One of the last episodes that made headlines, concerns a 13 year [...]
Read More...Prostitution in the Philippines – a time for change
July 30, 2012 · By Fr James McTavish, FMVD
More than ever before, prostitution has become institutionalized, organized, and globalized (i.e. through trafficking and the internet). If we look at the streets around us we see the explosion in budget hotels which are so clean but not so good, the all pervasive sight of girly bars and the numerous high class clubs and establishments [...]
Read More...Nestle ‘failing’ on child labour abuse, says FLA report
July 2, 2012 · , Humphrey, Hawskley. 29 June 2012, "Nestle 'failing' on child labour abuse, says FLA report". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18644870.
The food company Nestle has been accused of failing to carry out checks on child labour and other abuses in part of its cocoa supply chain. A report by an independent auditor, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), says it found “multiple serious violations” of the company’s own supplier code. The code includes clauses on child [...]
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