Topic: Human Trafficking
Pope and other religious leaders commit to eradicating human slavery
December 5, 2014 ·
“We [the signers] make this declaration in the name of the victims,” said Francis, who pointed out that human trafficking occurs virtually everywhere, from slums to the world’s wealthiest cities, hidden behind closed doors or in plain sight on streets where women are forced into prostitution.
Read More...Sex traffickers ‘using Facebook’ to lure victims
November 27, 2014 ·
LONDON — Gangs are using social media sites such as Facebook to lure young women into crime and prostitution, the head of European policing agency Europol said Tuesday.
Read More...Fair Trade and the social teachings of the Catholic Church
November 19, 2014 ·
Fair Trade and the social teachings of the Catholic Church Father Shay Cullen, mssc One of the most well-known success stories of Preda Fair Trade is its action to alleviate poverty and oppose the evil trade of human trafficking by implementing the social teachings of the Church. Living out in action these spiritual and social […]
Read More...Children of the Sex Trade
October 31, 2014 ·
October 4, 2014 by Father Shay Cullen SALZBURG, AUSTRIA: President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd is being petitioned by hundreds of fair traders across Austria this past week who are signing a letter asking him to stop sex tourism in the Philippines. Meeting in the historic city of Salzburg, the business leaders appealed to him to turn […]
Read More...Who permits the sex industry?
October 30, 2014 ·
October 28, 2014 Fr. Shay Cullen The brutal murder of Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude, 26, a transgender person in a hotel near the Subic Bay Freeport Zone last October 11, 2014 allegedly by US serviceman Pvt. 1st Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the US Marine Corps, who has been charged by Philippine police, highlights the ever […]
Read More...CSOs to launch anti-trafficking summits with help from Dutch Embassy, IACAT
October 10, 2014 ·
Three civil society organizations (CSOs) will launch three regional and sectoral summits against human trafficking in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) for the last quarter of this year. These three CSOs are the Blas F. Ople Policy Center (BFOC), International Justice Mission (IJM) […]
Read More...Iloilo leg of summit vs human trafficking starts
October 10, 2014 ·
October 9, 2014 By SAMMY JULIAN Manila News Bureau Chief MANILA – Iloilo City is hosting the second leg of the 2014 Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Summit. The gathering will focus on cyber trafficking and the youth’s vulnerability, as well as initiatives to curb online child exploitation. The two-day Summit begins today and will be attended […]
Read More...WALANG PUSO | Traffickers 'laughed' as they capsized boat to drown refugees, children
October 10, 2014 ·
By: Ella Ide, Agence France-PresseSeptember 17, 2014 9:00 AM InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 ROME – Survivors of Europe’s most deadly migrant shipwreck in years have described the horrifying moment traffickers capsized their boat and left them to drown, as the EU cried murder and vowed to step up the fight against people smugglers. […]
Read More...Disaster victims end up as sex workers
September 17, 2014 ·
ABS-CBNnews.com Posted at 08/29/2014 10:46 AM | Updated as of 08/29/2014 6:27 PM MANILA – Nine female sex workers, four of whom were allegedly minors, were rescued from a motel in Caloocan City. Atty. Eric Nuqui, chief NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division, said some of the victims were from calamity-hit areas such as Samar. “This is […]
Read More...168 children rescued from sex trafficking, FBI says
August 5, 2014 ·
Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged pimps, the FBI said Monday. The recoveries and arrests took place in 106 cities as part of a week-long campaign targeting truck stops, casinos, websites that advertise dating or […]
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