Topic: Human Trafficking
180 years after abolition, why is it the slave trade is booming?
November 23, 2013 ·
Danny Smith The Guardian, Friday 22 November 2013 20.02 GMT We equate slavery with a bygone age. But as the case of three women found in a London house shows, it is far from dead Three women enslaved in an ordinary London house for 30 years: this is shocking. But it should not be […]
Read More...EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE AFTERMATH OF TYPHOON YOLANDA
November 22, 2013 ·
BY FR. SHAY CULLEN I flew into Cebu City, an hours flight from Manila and drove with two Preda staff starting 3 am to visit the northern towns of Cebu Island on Tuesday, 19 November. The goal was to reach Daanbantayan, Bogo,and Bantayan Island to assess the storm damage, visit their communities and understand the situation […]
Read More...THE LOST ORPHANS OF YOLANDA
November 13, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen 12 November 2013 Besides the thousands that have been killed, injured, and made homeless by the most devastating typhoon known to humankind, the orphaned children are the most vulnerable. Their towns and villages and homes are no more and their parents are dead. They are threatened by malnutrition, kidnapping, and abduction. Horrible […]
Read More...SAVING THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
November 8, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen Nov. 10, 2013 She was only 14 years old when brought from a distant town, and she was lured into a relationship with a middle-aged American and became his live-in sex partner. He called her “Chocolate”, a racist term. In a conversation with reporters from ABC Television New York using a hidden […]
Read More...EUROPE : Sr Eugenia Bonetti wins EU award for anti-trafficking work
October 21, 2013 ·
EUROPE : Sr Eugenia Bonetti wins EU award for anti-trafficking work (Vatican Radio via CNUA) Italian Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, a driving force in the fight against trafficking and prostitution, was among the recipients of the European Citizen’s Prize 2013. The annual award was launched by the European Parliament in 2008 to recognise exceptional achievements […]
Read More...South African child sex trafficking and porn exposed.
October 10, 2013 ·
JOHANNESBURG – A suspected paedophile – working as a maintenance manager at luxury private game reserves and hotels in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga – allegedly used his “adopted” son to lure teenage boys for sale to sex tourists. The Times can reveal that, in the latest child-porn scandal to hit this country, a 59-year-old man has […]
Read More...A STORY OF ONE GIRL’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
September 16, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Here is a story that will gladden the hearts of all who care about children, abhor child abuse and are willing to speak out for human rights. It’s a story of a child’s courageous struggle against all odds. People of good conscience who shun evil and wrongdoing will hunger and […]
Read More...Pope asks pontifical academies to help fight human trafficking
August 24, 2013 ·
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service, VATICAN CITY (CNS via CNUA) At the request of Pope Francis, scholars and researchers belonging to two pontifical academies and representatives of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations will begin focusing on the phenomenon of human trafficking and ways to fight it. A working group from the pontifical […]
Read More...THE PLUNDER AND ITS CHILD VICTIMS
August 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It’s a happy day when we can save children from abusers, illegal detention, brothels, or from the clutches of traffickers, sex tourists or child porn makers. We at the Preda Foundation do that a lot but why is it so necessary in a so-called Catholic civilized country under the rule of law? And […]
Read More...FBI 'saves 105 trafficked children in 76 US cities'
July 31, 2013 ·
“The FBI remains committed to stopping this cycle of victimisation,” Ron Hosko said BBC News 29 July 2013 Last updated at 18:24 GMT The FBI says it has rescued 105 children and arrested 150 pimps in 76 US cities over the weekend, in an operation against child prostitution. The largest numbers of children rescued were […]
Read More...
