Topic: Human Trafficking
ASIA : Thai woman arrested for trafficking Burmese women and girls
July 12, 2013 ·
By Thin Lei Win BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation via CNUA) In an undercover operation at a guesthouse in the border town of Ranong, police arrested a Thai woman suspected of human trafficking, and rescued 13 Burmese women, including four under 18 who were forced into prostitution, The Nation reported. According to the paper, the police […]
Read More...HUMAN TRAFFICKING – NOT ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES
July 11, 2013 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen. Stuttgart, Germany – Human trafficking and sex tourism is on the rise in Europe especially in prosperous Germany as well as the Philippines and South East Asia. It is on the rise in the UK and Ireland also. It is slavery under another guise, hiding behind the liberal laws of Germany and […]
Read More...INDIA : Trafficked maids to order: The darker side of richer India By Nita Bhalla
July 10, 2013 ·
(Thomson Reuters Foundation / TrustLaw via CNUA) Inside the crumbling housing estates of Shivaji Enclave, amid the boys playing cricket and housewives chatting from their balconies, winding staircases lead to places where lies a darker side to India’s economic boom. Three months ago, police rescued Theresa Kerketa from one of these tiny two-roomed flats. For […]
Read More...ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
June 28, 2013 ·
Zero Tolerance for Sexual Exploitation by Fr. Shay Cullen 27 June 2013 The young women, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by government officials stationed at Philippine embassies in the Middle East, were being interviewed by Philippine media. They had their heads and faces completely covered with black cloth and wore dark glasses to hide from […]
Read More...WHEN AUTHORITY IS PERVERSE, ABUSE IS RIFE.
June 21, 2013 ·
FR.SHAY CULLEN 19 June 2013 It’s all about power and fear. Several impoverished, abused, cheated and beaten Filipino female workers taking shelter in Middle Eastern Philippine embassies have been allegedly sexually assaulted and prostituted by some corrupt and depraved embassy officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Walden Bello, the sociologist turned Congressman […]
Read More...THE MISSION IS TO END POVERTY AND INJUSTICE
June 14, 2013 ·
by : Fr. Shay Cullen Muff, Co. Donegal near Derry, Ireland – A gathering of returned missionaries at the I.O.S.A.S Center (Island of Saints and Scholars) recalled the long tradition of Irish missionaries leaving families and friends and going to foreign lands for life to bring the Gospel message of God’s love and to build […]
Read More...Oxford sex gang: girls as young as 11 'forced into prostitution'
May 16, 2013 ·
Girls as young as 11 were forced into prostitution and trafficked around the country by the Oxford paedophile ring. Oxford sex gang. Left to right, top: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil, Assad Hussain. Bottom: Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed Photo: PA 14 May 2013 The gang of seven – convicted at the […]
Read More...Asean group urged to devise plan to curb human trafficking
April 28, 2013 ·
By Maila Ager Source: Inquirer.net 7:38 pm I Friday, April 26th, 2013 MANILA, Philippines‹An anti- human trafficking group is urging the Asean Experts Working Group, which is now meeting here in the Philippines, to come up with a ³regional comprehensive approach² to address this problem in Southeast Asia. The Philippines plays host to the third […]
Read More...SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT AND SEX TOURISM MUST BE OPPOSED
April 19, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen The unwelcome truth that civilized people don’t want to hear is that the human race is not so civilized after all. Hundreds of thousands of wealthy males travel from rich to poor countries every year to sexually exploit and abuse children and women in a global phenomenon known as sex-tourism. Sexual […]
Read More...THE BRAVE STRUGGLE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
March 19, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The pristine sands of Boracay Island, the popular Philippine tourist destination near Kalibo-Aklan, is stained with the blood of the innocent. Dexter Condez, a young 26 year-old lay missionary with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was shot dead on the island as he was returning home from a meeting […]
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