October, 2001
Suicide Risk for Abused Children
October 23, 2001 ·
A recently released report from Westmead Children’s Hospital has found that sexually abused children are up to 13 times more likely to attempt or commit suicide that other young people. Doctors spent 10 years assessing almost 200 sexually abused children aged 5-15 years in the largest study of its kind. The children were assessed at […]
Read More...Child Sex Tourism UPDATE
October 23, 2001 ·
An Australian citizen was arrested in Honduras in September accused of sexually abusing two 12 year old girls in the town of El Paraiso. Daniel John Stepping (35), who also uses the alias of David John Steppings and Daniel Frank arrived in Honduras in 1998.he is being held without bail in Honduras. An Australian has […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 5
October 15, 2001 ·
Contents: Shabu worth P1B seized in Quezon Unliquidated cash advances total P34B/Foreign debt up by P9.2B in 2002 Overseas Filipino Workers unfazed by anti-terror war Lumads air peace proposals in Davao rituals Suicides among young in Asia mounting Addiction to “rugby” rises among children in Davao Japanese NGO gyps Filipinos Bar girls in Angeles City […]
Read More...CHILD SLAVERY: US Protocol aims to end Child Slavery in Cocoa Fields
October 1, 2001 ·
On 1 October, the international cocoa and chocolate industry signed a Protocol in the United States to eliminate child slavery in the chocolate industry. The Harkin-Engel Protocol set a four year timetable for all stages of the cocoa industry to comply with standards set by the International Labour Organization’s Convention against the worst forms of […]
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