Topic: Child Trafficking
Dozens arrested in Europe over child pornography ring
December 11, 2011 · , BBC News
Police in 22 European countries have arrested 112 suspects in an online child pornography investigation, Europe’s police agency, Europol, says. The suspects allegedly shared videos of children and babies being sexually abused and raped, Europol director Rob Wainwright said. Nineteen men face charges in Denmark, where police seized dozens of computers and thousands of hours […]
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...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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