Topic: Children’s rights
Abused girls' institution trauma
August 6, 2013 ·
By Madeleine Hamilton (Eureka Street via CNUA) On Fridays, when I push my two preschoolers in their double stroller to the Preston market, I pass the Anglicare office in Murray Road. Outside is a billboard featuring a miserable, heavily-mascaraed teenage girl and the message, ‘Foster care: Changing her life … and yours.’ ‘I’m sorry,’ I […]
Read More...THE YOUNG LEADERS OF TODAY ARE THE HOPE OF TOMORROW
July 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The incredible courage, bravery, and dedication of young people is what the world needs to inspire and lead us into the future. Malala Yousafzai is a striking example of the capability of the youth to give the good example where adults are failing. Her speech to the United Nations ignited the hope and […]
Read More...THE SHAME OF SECRET JAILS FOR CHILD PRISONERS
July 5, 2013 ·
by Father Shay Cullen 7th July 2013 A few weeks ago, I visited yet again several child detention centers and police holding cells around Metro Manila with the Preda Foundation social workers. We found two small girls, 13 and 14 years of age behind bars looking out tearfully; and next to their cell was an adult […]
Read More...THE SILENCED SCREAMS
May 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Rachelle, when she was just 13 years old, suffered in silence and isolation. Like most children in the world, she turned into herself and at that young age, having being certified mentally challenged with a mental age of a 9 year-old, she felt totally helpless to change or prevent what adults more powerful and knowledgeable did to […]
Read More...Papal embrace, No hugging ,no affection, adults only?
April 27, 2013 ·
“I make sure,” said my friend, “that I am never alone with my nephews and nieces.” That comment came from a priest. We were talking about the most sensitive topic imaginable: the fallout from the clerical sexual abuse scandals and the way that has affected our priesthood. It is something that many priests often […]
Read More...Resurrection for child prisoners
March 27, 2013 ·
Written by FR. SHAY CULLEN The rescue from the danger, humiliation and fear of life behind bars was like a resurrection, the start of a new life for the hundreds of children released from the death-like experience of prison life and brought to an open plan youth home. Misery, sadness and suicidal thoughts plague thousands […]
Read More...SAVING THE CHILDREN FROM DRUGS, POVERTY, AND PROSTITUTION
January 18, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen When I first came to the beautiful Philippines as a missionary in 1969, I got to know and love the friendly, kind, Filipino people and I knew I would be happy here. But Missionary life is full of challenges and taking a stand for the downtrodden and the oppressed and fighting for […]
Read More...UN: Increase in global child trafficking 'worrying'
December 14, 2012 · , GMA News>World | December 13, 2012 9:51am
VIENNA — Children, most of them girls, now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years, a UN agency said Wednesday. Girls under 18 made up two thirds of all trafficked children and now constitute 15-20 per cent of the total number of all detected victims, the […]
Read More...The Great and the Good Defenders of Children
December 7, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Great and the Good Defenders of 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.) It’s great to have the good news of the rescue of children from sexual exploitation. The rescue this week of six trafficked […]
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. […]
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