Topic: Child Sex Abuse
Oh! How well they protect the child abusers?
December 2, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Oh! How well they protect the child abusers? by: Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Perhaps the greatest social problem facing the administration of Philippine President Noynoy Aquino is the spreading corrupting influance of the violence and […]
Read More...Educating Children is the Road to Freedom
October 12, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Educating Children is the Road to Freedom by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) The only way out of grinding poverty and a life of child labor in the developing world is to give the children an education. […]
Read More...THE CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE – Justice for Abused Children
August 29, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
THE CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE – Justice for Abused Children by Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) The Supreme Court Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has been appointed as the first female Chief Justice of the […]
Read More...SOUTH ASIA – MAIN ISSUE
May 12, 2011 · By Sutthida Malikaew
The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is an immense problem in South Asian countries. Bangladesh and Nepal are the dominant source countries for trafficking within the region. Estimates vary, but a safe estimation is that several thousand Bangladeshi girls are trafficked out of the country each year. Destination countries include India, Pakistan and the […]
Read More...EASTERN EUROPE – MAIN ISSUE
May 12, 2011 ·
The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is reaching alarming dimensions in Eastern Europe. The most worrying fact is that the trafficking is carried out by well-organised and powerful international criminal networks. Furthermore, recent reports indicate that Eastern European women are being marketed and sold over the internet by criminal gangs which then smuggle them […]
Read More...The Lost Son: Trafficking, Children and Violence
May 12, 2011 · By Jo de Linde, ECPAT France
Published in By Jo de Linde, ECPAT France (May 1999) The film, The Lost Son, by Chris Menges was given its preview in Paris on April 20, 1999, It is the story of a private detective, Xavier Lombard played by Daniel Auteuil who is is hired by a rich family to find Leon, their son, […]
Read More...Coersion the Key Element Behind Trafficking
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) Internationally, there is no consensus on the term “trafficking”. In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly came near to a comprehensive definition in its stipulation that “trafficking” is the “illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and […]
Read More...Virgin Girl Brides Sought for Virility and Good Fortune
May 12, 2011 · , ECPAT International
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) In regard to Vietnam, the situation of trafficking of women and children within and from the country relates to three areas. First, there is trafficking from the northern part of Vietnam to China for marriage andother reasons. Second, there is trafficking from the southern part […]
Read More...Subic rape victim "Nicole" recanted her earlier statements that Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, who was convicted in 2007, raped her.
May 11, 2011 ·
In her sworn statement submitted to the Court of Appeals (CA) on March 12, Nicole admitted that she was so drunk when the incident happened. She raised doubts that Smith raped her, admitting that she was attracted to the US Marine officer. Smith was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to up to 40 years in […]
Read More...PASTORAL GUIDELINES ON SEXUAL ABUSES
May 11, 2011 ·
CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES SEPTEMBER 1, 2003 INTRODUCTION I. A Call to Repentance, Conversion, and Renewal Par.l. Reports of sexual abuse and misconduct committed by some members of the clergy and the religious have shaken the Catholic Church worldwide. Because of their role in the Church and society, any accusation of sexual misconduct […]
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