Topic: Sex Tourism
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...Migrant women treated like slaves
June 9, 2012 · By Nguyen Hung, http://www.asianews.it
Hanoi (AsiaNews) – Thousands of Vietnamese women who immigrate to Malaysia full of hope for a brighter future and better wages find themselves instead victims of abuse, exploitation and prostitution. About 100,000 Vietnamese work in the Muslim country, 60 per cent women, mostly from the poorer regions of Vietnam. They are not very educated and [...]
Read More...More fun in the Philippines?
June 7, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Sex tourism is a world wide reality and those who deny it are living far from reality. In the Philippines an estimated 60,000 commercially sexually exploited children are suffering abuse and lost childhoods according to a UNICEF estimate and millions more worldwide. There are stringent laws against it that are not being enforced.
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...Angeles City, the second largest sex tourism city in the world
April 26, 2012 · By Peter St. Cyr & Gadi Schwartz, US Media
A Bernalillo County Commissioner with a history of making inappropriate sexual comments in Albuquerque may be in more trouble half way around the world. A Seattle photographer, who has been documenting sex tourism in the Philippines, told KOB’s 4 On Your Side team he had a disturbing conversation with Commissioner Michael Wiener in Angeles City, [...]
Read More...Australian police smash child porn ring
March 23, 2012 · By AFP
SYDNEY — Australian police have smashed a child porn ring and arrested 14 men, including fathers, after hundreds of thousands of images and videos were seized, some depicting toddlers, they said Friday. Australian Federal Police raided more than a dozen properties across the country over the past week after a tip-off by Interpol, which linked [...]
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...Special SBS report: Child sex tourism in the Philippines
March 3, 2012 · By Katrina Yu, diversitydiaries.com
The opening of the Clark airbase and Subic Bay naval base just three hours north of the capital Manila created the designated ‘sex hubs’ of Angeles and Olongapo City that exist today.
Read More...The Philippines Project: The Preda Foundation
January 31, 2012 · By Katrina Yu, diversitydiaries.com
The January 2012 interview of Father Shay Cullen by Katrina Yu, australian journalist and writer.
Read More...The Assassination of Journalists and Priests
January 13, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen,
The power of the truth to set free the public from ignorance, indifference and apathy is what arouses public outcry and brings about civil and political action for human rights. Journalists, priests and pastors are frequently giving voice to the long oppressed aspirations of the indigenous people and it provokes violent retaliation. Another outspoken journalist, [...]
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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