Topic: Philippines
Tacloban, one year later
November 10, 2014 ·
It was a painful and difficult story for Josephine, 15 years old, and her father Jose to tell. I sat on a small plastic chair in their small, one-roomed house that they built from the wreckage of Haiyan (Yolanda), the greatest typhoon ever to hit land. Josephine sat close to her father who was aged beyond his years. When I arrived in their little home made of plywood sheets with Francis Bermido Jr., the Preda executive director, Jose was repairing an electric motor. It was his only source of livelihood for his surviving children.
Read More...CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA
November 10, 2014 ·
CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA contact www.preda.org , [email protected] RAC, the ‘Reception & Action Center’ Manila, is a shelter run by the City of Manila for children and adults. Every day children from all over Manila, particularly those without safe family environments, are ‘rescued’ and taken to RAC. […]
Read More...Chigwell businessman jailed for paying Philippines children for Internet sex acts
November 10, 2014 ·
A paedophile company director who paid children as young as 10 in the Philippines to perform sex acts on the internet has been jailed.
Read More...The Philippines: Death threats against Mr. Benito E. Molino URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY
November 4, 2014 ·
The Philippines: Death threats against Mr. Benito E. Molino URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY PHL 005 / 1019 / OBS 084 Death threat / Harassment Philippines October 29, 2014 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), […]
Read More...Bar manager gets life for trafficking
November 4, 2014 ·
CEBU CITY-The daughter of a bar owner on Thursday was convicted of qualified trafficking for recruiting young women and girls for sex.
Read More...Poor and hungry
November 4, 2014 ·
Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:59 AM | Saturday, November 1st, 2014 Malacanang’s response to the release of a Social Weather Stations survey showing that 43 percent, or about 9.3 million Filipinos, considered themselves hungry, and 55 percent, or some 12.1 million Filipino families, thought themselves poor, was true to form. The survey isn’t accurate, the Palace […]
Read More...Protect the children
November 4, 2014 ·
Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:09 AM | Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 The start of the year was marked by a horrendous report. In the isolated village of Ibabao in Cebu a child pornography ring was operating, with parents roping their own children into the sordid business. Inside their homes, parents were directing their children—and even their neighbors’—in […]
Read More...HELP US IN OUR CAMPAIGN TO UPGRADE OR CLOSE RAC
October 28, 2014 ·
Bahay Tuluyan This week Bahay Tuluyan sent copies of this photo to the President of the Philippines, Mayor of Manila, Secretary of Justice, Secretary of DSWD, Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights and various media outlets. It was taken inside a government shelter for children, Reception and Action Center Manila, better known as ‘RAC’, […]
Read More...Iloilo next leg of CSO summit vs human trafficking
October 10, 2014 ·
By: Pots de Leon, InterAksyon.comOctober 6, 2014 7:24 PM InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA – Anti-human trafficking stakeholders joined hands to address concerns on cyber trafficking and other forms of human trafficking in the Philippines, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands said […]
Read More...Miles de menores languidecen en precarios centros de detención de Filipinas
September 30, 2014 ·
Vida | 23/09/2014 Helen Cook Manila, 23 sep (EFE).- Miles de menores filipinos languidecen en precarias celdas de los centros de detención del país, adonde son trasladados tras ser arrestados por la Policía y donde permanecen durante meses en pésimas condiciones. Según cifras del Servicio de Prisiones Jesuita de Filipinas, unos 20.000 menores pasan […]
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