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People Of The Year Award 2008
September 13, 2008 ·
Last 13 September Preda Founder and president, Father Shay Cullen, Columban Missionary to the Philippines received The international Person of the year Award for 2008 at televised live ceremony in Dublin Ireland. He was selected from hundreds of nominees world wide for his outstanding work with the Preda staff in defending human rights and trafficked, […]
Read More...Child Abuse May 'Mark' Genes In Brains Of Suicide Victims
May 7, 2008 ·
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — A team of McGill University scientists has discovered important differences between the brains of suicide victims and so-called normal brains. Although the genetic sequence was identical in the suicide and non-suicide brains, there were differences in their epigenetic marking – a chemical coating influenced by environmental factors.
Read More...Aboitiz family: We’re not an oligarchy
February 18, 2008 · , Philippine Daily Inquirer
CEBU CITY, Philippines — An Aboitiz company official has denied that their businesses have benefited from the family?s close ties with the First Family as implied during the Senate hearing on the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal. “We are friends but, you know, I don’t think it’s fair to say that we benefited from it. […]
Read More...Paedophile panic sweeps soccer clubs in Kerala
January 30, 2008 ·
Wayanad (Kerala), March 30: Several football clubs for children in Kerala are in a panic after discovering on Sunday that their Belgian coach of over four years is a paedophile who had served five years in jail for sexually abusing children back home. Jozef Achtergael, 57, was released in 2000 after doing five years of […]
Read More...Kids Still Jailed in Manila – PREDA
December 31, 2007 · By Rene Q. Bas
First of two parts Children are still jailed in Manila—contrary to what the city jail and social welfare officials told The Manila Times in an earlier report. “True, the kids are not in the city jail. But they are jailed in two other buildings in a compound just a five-minute walk away from city hall,” […]
Read More...Home for Boys Activities 2007
December 9, 2007 ·
Uzbekistan Children used a cotton pickers
October 30, 2007 ·
Was the shirt on your back made using forced child labour? It’s an uncomfortable thought, one that we normally push to the back of our minds as we search out bargains in the High Street. And companies make it easy for us to ignore the problem – reassuring the consumer that manufacturers adhere to strict […]
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 […]
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