Topic: Sex Tourism
The Moral Challenge of Responsible Tourism
November 2, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Philippines is spending large amounts of money for a slogan that will summarize a new attractive tourism programme to promote the best aspects of the beautiful country and its people. It is not hard to love the Philippines once you visit here. The people in general are courteous, welcoming, friendly and hospitable. There are […]
Read More...How Many Sex Tourists, How Many Victims?
October 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The recent Philippine Tourism Congress avoided a hot subject – sex tourism. This is the scourge that is causing endless abuse and exploitation of women and children. It is also destroying the moral and family values of this country and damaging the name of Philippine tourism. Some Philippine officials have hotly disputed a statistic mentioned […]
Read More...Sen. Cayetano hits Palace downplay of sex tours
September 27, 2011 · By Cathy Yamsuan, Philippine Daily Inquirer
How exactly would Malacañang know if a tourist was coming to the Philippines for sex? Did he check a box on his visa application indicating so? Senate women and youth committee chairperson Pia Cayetano wanted to know in a privilege speech she delivered Monday, after the Palace downplayed last week a claim made by US Ambassador […]
Read More...The Trafficking of Children
January 19, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The great challenge that the Aquino government has inherited and is trying to confront is the proliferation of sexual violence against children and the shocking trade in human persons in the Philippines. Most of the trafficking is internal to the Philippines. Thousands of women and children are taken from the remote impoverished rural regions. The […]
Read More...Children are hurt Most by Lack of Justice
November 4, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The report a while ago about the Philippines being one of the lowest ranking countries on the index of Transparency International and tagged as “highly corrupt” should be no great surprise. Outspoken Bishop Joel Baylon of Legazpi and the diocesan clergy said in a strongly worded Pastoral Letter that “there has been an erosion of […]
Read More...The Silence of the Victims
January 6, 2010 ·
This is the story of a Filipino child, Angel-grace, one of many, representative of millions around the world. I will be frank in telling her story. My readers will want to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They will settle for nothing less difficult as it may be to open […]
Read More...Crackdown on Child Sex Tour Organizers
February 4, 2007 ·
Travel agents organising child sex tours could face 20 years in jail under laws proposed by the WA Government. Attorney General Jim McGinty said the proposed laws would complement federal laws aimed at paedophiles who participate in child sex tours. Federal laws make it an offence for an Australian to have sex with a child […]
Read More...Notorious Paedophile May Return to Oz from Thai Prison
February 3, 2007 ·
Australian child sex offender Bradley Pendragon may return to Australia from Thailand to complete his sentence. Pendragon was the first foreigner convicted of child sex offences in Thailand after admitting to having sex with girls aged 9, 11 and 13 while on holiday in the early 1990s. Pendragon has indicated that he will apply for […]
Read More...The Philippines (Fitzgerald Case)
February 2, 2007 ·
A Catholic Bishop has testified in defence of convicted Australian paedophile Victor Fitzgerald, who is appealing against his conviction for abusing girls in the Philippines in 1995. The testimony of the Bishop is based on a sworn affidavit by 23 priests which states that the girls were unduly influenced to testify against Fitzgerald. An Australian […]
Read More...Sex slavery plagues Romania and Bulgaria
December 28, 2006 ·
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Anca thought girls who spoke on television about being sold into sex slavery were paid to invent such stories to boost tv show ratings.
That was until she answered a friend’s invitation to join her in Germany and work as a dishwasher in a town near Hamburg.
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