World News
Westerners ‘fuelling Philippine child sex video rise’
June 27, 2019 · By kenya-news-alerts.com
“Jhona” says she and her friend were sexually exploited as children, by the girl’s mother Two-thirds of children forced into online sex abuse videos in the Philippines are exploited by their own parent or family member, it is claimed. Much of the trade is driven by people in the West paying adults to make the […]
Read More...Europe’s Top Human Rights Organization Restores Russia’s Voting Rights
June 26, 2019 · By SASHA INGBER for www.npr.org
Europe’s top human rights organization is reinstating Russia’s voting rights, a major step in removing penalties for a country accused of grave human rights violations. Russia was stripped of its rights in 2014, after it annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. The seizure triggered international condemnation. This week, the Council of Europe, a Strasbourg-based watchdog founded in 1949 […]
Read More...Group calls on Cleveland Catholic Diocese to be more transparent
June 26, 2019 · By BILL SHEIL,for fox8.com
CLEVELAND – A national organization that represents clergy sex abuse victims is calling on the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland to release records of an exhaustive 2002 grand jury investigation into the priest-pedophile scandal. “We think the time is now for church officials in Cleveland to lift the cover of secrecy and release these records to the public,” says Zach […]
Read More...Tackling child sexual abuse online and offline
June 26, 2019 · By Gov.UK for www.gov.uk
Thank you, it’s good to be here. I always enjoy coming to the QE2 Centre, particularly as it’s just down the road from the Home Office. In fact, it’s been close to all the departments I’ve been lucky enough to lead… and the commute from No 10 wouldn’t have been bad either! In all seriousness, […]
Read More...Greenland seeks to break silence around child sexual abuse
June 26, 2019 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.brisbanetimes.com.au
COPENHAGEN – In Greenland, the scourge of child sexual abuse has emerged as a pressing concern with nearly 1 in 3 having suffered abuse in their childhood, and efforts to combat it hampered by a persistent conspiracy of silence. The sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory is confronted with major social problems, including high levels of suicide […]
Read More...Cardinal Pell returns to prison to await ruling on appeal
June 25, 2019 · By Catholic News Service for www.ncronline.org
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Cardinal George Pell was taken back to prison June 6 at the end of a two-day hearing on his appeal of his conviction on five counts of child sexual abuse. A three-judge panel from the Appeals Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria said it would announce its judgment at a later date, […]
Read More...Stop killings, Negros human rights group asks gov’t
June 25, 2019 · By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Israel Avelino, 22, traveled from Canlaon City in Negros Oriental province to Metro Manila and spoke before a network of human rights advocates on Saturday. He narrated how heavily armed men barged into their house on March 30 while his family was asleep in Barangay Panubigan. The armed men, whom […]
Read More...UN Needs to Act Now to End Philippines Killings
June 25, 2019 · By Laila Matar for www.hrw.org
If you live in an impoverished urban area in the Philippines today, you have good reason to fear that you or a family member could get caught up in President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous “war on drugs.” And if you’re a politician, activist, or journalist outspoken about the drug war, be prepared for harassment and intimidation […]
Read More...What’s under the miter?
June 24, 2019 · By Father William Grimm MM, Tokyo for international.la-croix.com
When I was a boy, I watched a narrow clamshell bucket dipping into a sewer up the street from our home to clear muck. I was still too young and too inexperienced in the ways of the Church to be aware of the irony of it, but I found it amusing that the muck-filled bucket […]
Read More...‘Living drug’ offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients
June 24, 2019 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
NHS patients with lymphoma have for the first time been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer. Mike Simpson, 62, from Durham, says his cancer is now “on the run”. The therapy, called CAR-T, is a “living drug” that is tailor-made for each patient using their body’s own cells […]
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