Topic: Sexual Exploitation
Who permits the sex industry?
October 30, 2014 ·
October 28, 2014 Fr. Shay Cullen The brutal murder of Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude, 26, a transgender person in a hotel near the Subic Bay Freeport Zone last October 11, 2014 allegedly by US serviceman Pvt. 1st Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the US Marine Corps, who has been charged by Philippine police, highlights the ever […]
Read More...Disaster victims end up as sex workers
September 17, 2014 ·
ABS-CBNnews.com Posted at 08/29/2014 10:46 AM | Updated as of 08/29/2014 6:27 PM MANILA – Nine female sex workers, four of whom were allegedly minors, were rescued from a motel in Caloocan City. Atty. Eric Nuqui, chief NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division, said some of the victims were from calamity-hit areas such as Samar. “This is […]
Read More...THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING THAT IS SLAVERY
June 26, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen – It is a cruel and hideous crime to capture and enslave an innocent human for any reason whatsoever. But to make money and indulge greed and avarice in forcing the poor and vulnerable through force and intimidation, threats and debts, to work for little or no payment, then that is slavery
Read More...VICTIMS TRAFFICKED FROM RUSSIA AND UKRAINE FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.
April 25, 2014 ·
By Erika Sauler Philippine Daily Inquirer Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 A raid on an upscale entertainment club in Pasay City suspected of being a prostitution front led to the rescue on Tuesday night of 19 women-13 Filipinos and six others from Russia and Ukraine-believed to be victims of human trafficking. Dante Bonoan, chief of the […]
Read More...19 Ukrainians, Russians, Filipinas rescued in bar raid
April 25, 2014 ·
By Erika Sauler Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:15 pm | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 A raid on an upscale entertainment club in Pasay City suspected of being a prostitution front led to the rescue on Tuesday night of 19 women—13 Filipinos and six others from Russia and Ukraine—believed to be victims of human trafficking. Dante Bonoan, chief […]
Read More...Labor execs in sex-for-flight scandal grounded
April 11, 2014 ·
By Tina G. Santos Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines-Labor officials who were suspended after being implicated in the “sex-for-flight” scheme will not be given new foreign assignments even after they have served out their penalties. “They will stay here for now,” Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said of former Riyadh labor attaché Adam Musa and Jordan acting labor […]
Read More...Brothels operate in Zamboanga shelters
April 11, 2014 ·
Seven children, age 3 to 12, were found to have STDs like gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia. ZAMBOANGA CITY-In yet another sign of the desperation to which evacuees here had been driven, prostitution in shelters has persisted despite officials saying it has been stopped. One evacuee, Hain Sukarna, 43, mother of three children, said prostitution persisted […]
Read More...RELIGIONS UNITE AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS
March 31, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It was a solemn moment in the great meeting hall in the Vatican where the joint agreement and statement was to be signed by the representatives of the great world religions. It was not some lofty, irrelevant declaration to work for mutual respect for different faiths but to launch the “Global Freedom […]
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 […]
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