January, 2000
More rapes reported in 1999
January 30, 2000 ·
A FILIPINO woman was raped every two hours and 45 Minutes last year, a House leader disclosed yesterday, citing the latest official police statistics on the crime.
Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Daisy Avarice Fuentes said a record-high 3,164 cases of rape were reported to the police in 1999, 131 more than the number recorded in 1998.
Read More...More rapes reported in 1999
January 30, 2000 ·
Published in Today (January 30, 2000) A FILIPINO woman was raped every two hours and 45 Minutes last year, a House leader disclosed yesterday, citing the latest official police statistics on the crime. Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Daisy Avarice Fuentes said a record-high 3,164 cases of rape were reported to the police in 1999, 131 […]
Read More...4 Boys Held for Raping 5-yr-old Girl in Iloilo
January 28, 2000 ·
ILOILO C ITY — Four boys, aged 10, 8, 7 and 6, were accused of sexually molesting a 5-year-old girl in Baran ‘jay Mansaya in Lapaz district here on Monday.
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...Lim Renews Crackdown vs Sex Trade
January 26, 2000 ·
Published in The Manila Times (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. Lim directed Philippine National Police National Capital Region Police Office (PNP-NCRPO) director Edgardo Aglipay to launch a “no-nonsense” crackdown by arresting those responsible for […]
Read More...US TROOPS IN ANGELES CITY
January 25, 2000 ·
ANGELES CITY-Fearing an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases, this city’s lone woman councilor has urged restricted activities of 2,000 American troops participating in military exercises with Filipino soldiers.
Read More...US TROOPS IN ANGELES CITY
January 25, 2000 ·
Published in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (January 25, 2000) ANGELES CITY-Fearing an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases, this city’s lone woman councilor has urged restricted activities of 2,000 American troops participating in military exercises with Filipino soldiers. “They should be tightly reined,” said Councilor Susan Pineda told the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement. […]
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...Sex Tour Crackdown Urged
January 24, 2000 ·
Published in The Manila Times (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 […]
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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