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Young Child Soldiers Used as Cannon Fodder in Asia
May 24, 2000 ·
BANGKOK- Young boys and girls are increasingly being used by Asian militaries and insurgent groups as cannon fodder, according to the firstever survey on the use of child soldiers in Asia
Read More...Boy, 15, Draws Jail Term for Raping Girl, 5
May 19, 2000 ·
DAGUPAN CITY-After almost two months of marathon hearings, a judge here ordered a 15-year-old boy to suffer in jail for at least two years when he reaches 18 years old for raping a 5-year-old girl in November last year.
Read More...Fighting The Child Sex Trade
May 8, 2000 ·
OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINES – Pia Agustin Corvera became a prostitute at the age of 9. An aunt who raised her in a Manila slum rented her to foreign men with Pia receiving 120 pesos–$3–for each encounter. After three years, according to a social worker’s report, she was sold to a visiting German pedophile. Today, the morose 16-year-old with a ravaged psyche and an uneasy smile has found refuge here in a therapeutic community for child victims of sexual abuse run by a 57-year-old Irish priest, the Rev. Shay Cullen.
Read More...China Wakes to Horror of Human Trafficking
May 3, 2000 ·
BEIJING -China has launched a massive police operation against trafficking in women and children, pulling back the curtain on a problem it once told its people and the world it had eradicated on the 1950s.
Read More...Court Jails Seven for Sex Crimes
May 1, 2000 ·
Cuba: A court in eastern Cuba has sentenced five Cuban men and two women to jail terms of between three and 30 years for sex offenses involving schoolgirls.
The seven were convicted by the court in Camaguey province of repeated crimes of “corruption of minors” and procuring. They were accused of forcing a group of secondary school girls to perform sex acts, using promises of money, and in some cases, threats of physical force.
Read More...Senate Warns Against Sex Gang
February 9, 2000 ·
A WHITE slavery ring is behind the rash of abductions of high schools girls in Metro Manila and Tarlac, a Senate committee head said yesterday.
Read More...Japan Targets Child Sex Trade
February 2, 2000 ·
TOKYO — Naked girl still beckon from the magazines read with nonchalant aplomb by salarymen headed home from the office on the crowded subways.
But Japan is hoping a new law on pornography and child prostitution will help it shed its image as one of the most licentious capitals in Asia.
Read More...Lim Renews Crackdown vs Sex Trade
January 26, 2000 ·
INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Alfredo Lim yesterday ordered a renewed crackdown against prostitution syndicates responsible for fielding sex workers in Metro Manila.
Read More...Sex Tour Crackdown Urged
January 24, 2000 ·
SENATOR Loren Legarda yesterday urged the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to crack down on the Philippine agents, of a New York firm which a US congresswoman and a feminist group earlier accused of running sex tours in the Philippines and Thailand.
Read More...Unicef Child Sex Trafficking Must End
January 23, 2000 ·
NATIONS must fight the greed and brutal disregard for human rights which underpin the worldwide trafficking in children and women, most often for sexual exploitation, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
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