Topic: Child Abuse
Seeking Justice, End To Impunity
November 23, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
As 13 year-old Angelica walked out of the court room she was crying her heart out. Her friends from the PREDA home for abused girls were hugging and embracing her trying to give her comfort.
Read More...Hackers take down child pornography sites
October 24, 2011 · , BBC News
Hacktivist group Anonymous has briefly taken offline 40 sites it claims traded in images of child sexual abuse. As part of the action it published the names of 1,500 people who it says used a site known as “Lolita City”. The attacks were carried out as part of Operation Darknet which targeted abuse groups that […]
Read More...America's child death shame
October 17, 2011 · , BBC News
Why is the problem of violence against children so much more acute in the US than anywhere else in the industrialised world, asks Michael Petit, President of Every Child Matters. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is […]
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...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...The Nature of Love
January 5, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
One of the biggest problems that is facing some poor developing nations is over population. It is brought about by poverty stemming from social inequality, injustice, the capture and concentration of the national resources and wealth in the hands and pockets of a few super rich elite. Rich countries on the other hand have shared […]
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...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.
Read More...Preda Newsletter October 2010
October 2, 2010 ·
DEAR FRIENDS & DEFENDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, The US Navy left behind a proud heritage in the Philippines – their children. When the Navy base closed at Subic Bay, these children of mixed-race were left abandoned by their fathers, some without mothers, others adopted by poor families, and all impoverished materially, culturally and without family. […]
Read More...Pastoral Guidelines on Sexual Abuse and Misconduct by the Clergy
March 22, 2010 · , likhaan.org
The guidelines are unequivocal in recognizing that “clergy who engage in any form of sexual misconduct are violating their vows and the ministerial relationship. They are misusing their authority and power and are taking advantage of the vulnerability of those who are seeking spiritual guidance.”18 The guidelines also state that “the respect and reverence with which […]
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