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Fear and trauma haunt Myanmar’s freed political prisoners
November 19, 2021 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
Fear and trauma haunt Myanmar’s freed political prisoners Political prisoners in Myanmar, released under a general amnesty by the military junta last month, continue to suffer from physical and psychological illnesses due to torture and abuse by security forces, media reports say. In addition to depression, many also live in fear of rearrest and detention. […]
Read More...Cardinal Advincula: Fight forces, structures that oppress poor
November 19, 2021 · By By CBCP News, Manila, Philippines for cbcpnews.net
Cardinal Advincula: Fight forces, structures that oppress poor Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila has called on the people to resist forces and structures that oppress and cause injustice. In his message for the World Day of the Poor on Nov. 14, he said that issues that plight the marginalized must be stopped. “Let us fight […]
Read More...Pope: Don’t judge the poor, often victims of injustice
November 19, 2021 · By Frances D'Emilio, The Associated Press for www.ncronline.org
Pope: Don’t judge the poor, often victims of injustice VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis decried societies which rush indifferently past the poor, often judging them instead of helping them, as he celebrated Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by 2,000 indigent people. During his homily, Francis also made an made the appeal against what he […]
Read More...US journalist detained in Myanmar released
November 19, 2021 · By AFP, Yangon for www.ucanews.com
US journalist detained in Myanmar released A US journalist imprisoned in Myanmar since May has been released and deported from the country days after being sentenced to 11 years in jail, officials told AFP on Monday. Danny Fenster was being taken to the capital Naypyidaw from Yangon where he was jailed and would be deported, […]
Read More...Illegally detained and abused Irish mothers and children to be compensated by the State and Church.
November 17, 2021 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Illegally detained and abused Irish mothers and children to be compensated by the State and Church. Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said a new financial redress scheme for the survivors of mother-and-baby homes will be the largest in the history of the State in terms of the number of beneficiaries. He said it is a […]
Read More...Children Behind Bars: The Global Overuse of Detention of Children
November 15, 2021 · By HRW.org for www.hrw.org
Children Behind Bars: The Global Overuse of Detention of Children Shortly after 16-year-old T.W. was booked into Florida’s Polk County Jail in February 2012, his three cellmates punched him, whipped him with wet towels, and nearly strangled him with a pillowcase. They then urinated on him, sprayed his face with cleaning fluid, and stripped him […]
Read More...Mother sentenced to 20 years in 1-year-old’s death
November 12, 2021 · By AP News for apnews.com
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A woman in South Carolina has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2017 death of her 1-year-old son. The Post and Courier reports that Alexis Grant, 27, was sentenced Tuesday on a charge of homicide by child abuse. She had been arrested in May 2017 in the city […]
Read More...Pope ‘shamed’ by church’s failures over child abuse in France
November 12, 2021 · By Angela Giuffrida in Rome for www.theguardian.com
Pope ‘shamed’ by church’s failures over child abuse in France Pope Francis has said he is “shamed” by the Catholic church’s failure to deal with paedophile priests in France, as one of his closest advisers pushed for an inquiry into the sexual abuse of children by clergy in Italy. A landmark report on Tuesday found that at […]
Read More...Horrific on-line sexual abuse turns to physical sexual abuse in the Philippines
November 12, 2021 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Creaven recorded sexual abuse, court hears A former RTÉ Sports producer filmed himself sexually abusing a young child in the Philippines seven years ago while other children were in the room, a court heard today. Kieran Creaven, with an address at Adelaide Street in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, has already pleaded guilty to ten charges. […]
Read More...No way out for South Asia’s child laborers
November 11, 2021 · By Ben Joseph for www.ucanews.com
No way out for South Asia’s child laborers Agricultural technology is the next big thing happening in South Asia — the child labor hotspot of the world that employs most of its teenage workers in farms and allied sectors. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have child labor populations of 5.8 million, 5 million, 3.4 million and […]
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