Topic: Child Prostitution
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...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...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...AUSTRALIA : Sex sells but we are selling out our children
June 25, 2012 · By Melinda Tankard Reist
Ever feel like you’re living in a giant porn theme park? Billboards dominate public space with hyper-sexualised messages. Buses are painted with semi-naked women. There are pole-dancing themes in shop-fronts, porn mags next to the lollies at the petrol station counter, T-shirts in youth surf shops depicting S&M and Playboy bunnies on everything from girls [...]
Read More...Live Smiling Girls!
June 13, 2012 · By MARGARET WRIGHT, http://laonlaan.blogspot.com
A May 25 KOAT news report about a YouTube spoof was evidence enough that the county commissioner’s controversy is fading into parody. The video depicted a condiment-squirting hot dog running for office.
Read More...US arrests 190 in child pornography crackdown
June 9, 2012 · , BBC News
Police have arrested 190 people in a major US crackdown on images showing child sex abuse, officials say. The month-long “Operation Orion” also resulted in 18 children being rescued, federal agents said. Arrests were made mostly in the US but also took place in countries including Spain, Argentina, the UK and the Philippines. The official [...]
Read More...Many thanks from all at PREDA on the success of the “Run for Freedom”
May 11, 2012 · By Philip Cribbin
Just under 300 people ran, jogged and walked on April the 28th in the Phoenix Park to show their solidarity with the children being rescued on a continuous basis by the team at PREDA.
Read More...“Run for Freedom” with Damien Dempsey and Catherina McKiernan
March 13, 2012 ·
PREDA’s “Run for Freedom” with musician Damien Dempsey and athletics legend Catherina McKiernan on Saturday 28th April, 2012 in the Phoenix Park. The “RUN FOR FREEDOM” will take place in the Phoenix Park on Saturday April 28th at 1pm with registration also accepted from 11am on the morning of the run.
Read More...The Challenges for Philippine Tourism in 2012
January 4, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
For the beautiful Philippines to have an attractive, clean and healthy tourism industry, much effort has to be done in eradicating the tarnished image made by the influx of thousands of single men seeking sex. We all need to face this harsh truth that thousands of young women and minors are being exploited in the [...]
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