Topic: Sex Tourism
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...SILENCE ABOUT CHILD ABUSE IS A CRIME
May 15, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There is growing international clamor for the filtering and blocking of child pornography and cyber-sex on the internet. The Philippine National Telecommunications Commission is under the national and international spotlight for not implementing the anti-child porn law law since 2009. They have promised to do it by June, five years […]
Read More...Trafficking in Innocence after the storm
April 10, 2014 ·
By Shay Cullen, SSC Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year-old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning to rescue the child, just one of thousands of children trafficked for sexual abuse each year in the Philippines.and […]
Read More...THE HUMAN FACE OF PHILIPPINE POVERTY
December 12, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Reggie is the human face of poverty in the Philippines. He and his family lived on the edge of total poverty until typhoon Haiyan pushed him and his family into absolute poverty this November 2013. He is a 17 year-old jobless youth whose home was taken away by the 245 kilometer per hour wind. […]
Read More...FAIR TRADE DRIED MANGOS, A TASTE OF JUSTICE
September 27, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen I was visiting villages where a new group of small farmers had become members of the ever growing Preda Fair Trade partnership. They lived off mixed farming and mango trees. They proudly showed me some of the benefits of the fair trade payments and dividend bonuses they received for their mango […]
Read More...SUPPORTING THE GOOD, HONEST NGOs
August 30, 2013 ·
by FR.SHAY CULLEN These days the good name of non-government organizations (NGOs), church charities and people’s organizations in the Philippines have been dragged into the mud and disrepute by the corrupt acts of politicians who used fake NGOs and charities and even government agencies to launder stolen public funds entrusted to them for poverty alleviation […]
Read More...AMERICAN (54) SUSPECTED PAEDOPHILE ARRESTED IN ANGELES CITY.
August 5, 2013 ·
The police operatives from the Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) headed by PSSUPT Eden T. Ugale, who is a member of PMA Class ’90, arrested on July 30, 2013 an American national, 54 years old, and residing in Balibago, Angeles City, for statutory rape and violation of R.A. 7610 or An Act Providing for Stronger […]
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...Aussie pedophile intercepted at NAIA, put on PH blacklist
April 26, 2013 ·
By Jocelyn R. Uy Philippine Daily Inquirer 7:40 pm | Friday, April 26th, 2013 Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines—A convicted Australian pedophile who tried to enter the country from Singapore early this month was intercepted by immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Bureau of Immigration […]
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 […]
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