Topic: Child Trafficking
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...Irish couples return home from Mexico after child adoption nightmare
January 22, 2012 · By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral.com
The Irish couples innocently caught up in an adoption scandal in Mexico have returned home – heartbroken, shaken and childless. The Sunday Independent reports that the 11 couples are now back in Ireland after police smashed the child trafficking operation in Guadalajara. Legal representatives of the prospective parents have assured the Independent that their clients [...]
Read More...Irish couples questioned in Mexico inquiry
January 19, 2012 ·
Eleven Irish couples have been questioned by police investigating alleged child trafficking in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. They have been asked by the authorities to remain in the country to help police with their inquiries. An Irish embassy official has been in Guadalajara to provide consular assistance. The Irish couples were involved in securing [...]
Read More...How Many Sex Tourists, How Many Victims?
October 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The recent Philippine Tourism Congress avoided a hot subject – sex tourism. This is the scourge that is causing endless abuse and exploitation of women and children. It is also destroying the moral and family values of this country and damaging the name of Philippine tourism. Some Philippine officials have hotly disputed a statistic mentioned [...]
Read More...Real problem
October 11, 2011 · , Editorial, Philippine Daily Inqirer
There was a lot of hue and cry about the statement of US Ambassador Harry Thomas at a recent judicial conference on human trafficking that 40 percent of foreign male tourists visit the Philippine for commercial sex. At first the ambassador refused to change his statement when asked by Philippine officials to apologize for it, [...]
Read More...Preda Newsletter July 2011
July 31, 2011 · By Preda Information Office
Dear friends and supporters of children’s rights, Opening doors to freedom is one of the most successful programs of the PREDA Foundation. It’s a fantastic experience to see young teenagers walking free from jails where they have been unjustly imprisoned and to see the happiness on their smiling faces when they realize that they are [...]
Read More...The Suffering of Children
January 26, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Saving and protecting children from abusers, pimps, pedophiles, and traffickers, be they parents or corrupt business people, is the work that goes on everyday here at the Preda Children’s Home. New cases, seemingly one worse than the other, arrive every few days. The child care team and the legal team help them cope up with [...]
Read More...The Trafficking of Children
January 19, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The great challenge that the Aquino government has inherited and is trying to confront is the proliferation of sexual violence against children and the shocking trade in human persons in the Philippines. Most of the trafficking is internal to the Philippines. Thousands of women and children are taken from the remote impoverished rural regions. The [...]
Read More...Laws Regarding Trafficking of Women and Children in China
December 16, 2010 ·
With regards to China, legal measures emanate from the 1991 decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress which called for action to criminalise the following: abduction for sale of women and children; kidnap of women and children, kidnap for purposes of blackmail; purchase of abducted and kidnapped women and children;
Read More...The Good News We Were Waiting For
November 12, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Last week, there was good news when the Philippine Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) from Angeles city linked up with their Olongapo counterpart and raided a cyber-sex den in a private house just five minutes away from the City Hall. There they found five children, 14 years-old to 16, working as “show girls”. The [...]
Read More...Religious Faith without Action is Dead
October 7, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
A coalition of child rights advocates rallied at the Hall of Justice, Olongapo city last 5 October to demand a swift and honest investigation by prosecutors into the alleged trafficking and rape of a 12-year-old girl by Jose Rodriguez, the mayor of San Marcelino, Zambales.
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