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Prostitution Ring Highlights Vulnerability of Colombia Indigenous Communities
August 28, 2019 · By InSight Crime for www.insightcrime.org
Authorities in Colombia have broken up a prostitution ring exploiting indigenous minors in the Amazonas department, the second human trafficking ring arrested this year in the region. On July 31, police arrested 13 suspected participants in a criminal network, including three members of local indigenous communities, which recruited indigenous girls for prostitution, according to a […]
Read More...RICO suit against Buffalo diocese alleges conspiracy in sexual abuse cases
August 28, 2019 · By CNA for www.catholicnewsagency.com
Buffalo, N.Y., Aug 15, 2019 / 11:55 am (CNA).- Twenty-two plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Aug. 14 against the Diocese of Buffalo, a province of the Society of Jesus, multiple priests, eight parishes, three high schools, a seminary, among others, alleging “a pattern of racketeering activity” that enabled and covered up clerical sexual abuse. The lawsuit […]
Read More...UN gives stark warning over food security and climate change
August 23, 2019 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, according to a landmark UN climate assessment. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that efforts to limit global warming while feeding a booming population could be wrecked without swift and […]
Read More...South Africa gets go-ahead to increase black rhino trophy hunting
August 23, 2019 · By Damian Carrington in Geneva for www.theguardian.com
South Africa has won permission to almost double the number of black rhinos that can be killed as trophies after arguing the money raised will support conservation of the critically endangered species. The decision was made at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) after receiving support from some African nations and opposition from […]
Read More...‘I am DNA proof my father is a rapist’
August 22, 2019 ·
A woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called “victimless prosecution”, in one of the first cases of its kind, the BBC has learned. “Vicky” says her mother was under the age of consent when a family friend she claims was in his 30s raped her. She says her birth […]
Read More...Jeffrey Epstein: How conspiracy theories spread after financier’s death
August 20, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Just hours after the high-profile financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday, unsubstantiated theories about his death began to gain traction online. Epstein, who was set to stand trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, killed himself in his jail cell in New York, prison officials said. He was accused of running a “vast […]
Read More...Stop abusing land, scientists warn
August 16, 2019 · By Roger Harrabin for www.bbc.com
How can the land protect us from climate change? Uncultivated land covered with vegetation protects us from overheating because the plants absorb the warming gas CO2 from the air and fix it in the soil. But the scientists meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, will say the way we farm and grow timber often actually increases emissions […]
Read More...Philippine Christians, Muslims pray in Marawi’s ruins
August 13, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Marawi for www.ucanews.com
A group of Christians and Muslims held “interfaith prayers” in the ruins of a church and a mosque on July 27 in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, which was devastated by a five-month siege in 2017. The prayers were led by Father Teresito Soganub, parish priest of the Marawi Catholic cathedral who was held hostage by […]
Read More...Thai military pilot ‘sacrificed his life’ for others
August 13, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Bangkok for www.ucanews.com
The Catholic instructor pilot who died while on a training mission in northern Thailand displayed the ultimate self-sacrifice as he faced death, it has emerged. Francis Xavier Narupol Lertkusol, known to his friends as ‘Captain Pete,’ lost his life when the Air Force training jet he was flying crashed July 11 near the city of Chiang Mai. His […]
Read More...Australian man, 62, caught ‘red-handed’ with underage boys: Nepal police
August 9, 2019 · By Agence France-Presse for www.scmp.com
Police in Nepal on Wednesday were investigating whether an Australian man arrested for allegedly abusing two boys had more victims or was part of a network of paedophiles. The 62-year-old paragliding pilot was arrested on Tuesday, after police raided his rented house in the tourist town of Pokhara following a tip-off, making him the latest foreigner […]
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