December, 2002
PREDA NEWSLETTER December 2002 and New Year 2003
December 30, 2002 ·
Dear Friends, From all of us at PREDA Children’s Home and Human Rights Center we wish you a very meaningful Christmas and a New Year that will see the spirit of Justice growing stronger in your hearts and in the world. Many may lose hope that peace will ever come, that acts of protest violence […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 46
December 23, 2002 ·
Contents: NBI charges two foreigners for employing minors in bars Inmates fast to protest abuses in jail Lawyers act to end judicial corruption NBI charges two foreigners for employing minors in bars The National Bureau of Investigation charged Australian Terrence George Matthews and American Thomas Glenn Jarrel for employing minors as dancers and prostitutes in […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 45
December 14, 2002 ·
Contents: Internet porn firm busted Six minors rescued from prostitution Aids epidemic “bringing social collapse” Internet porn firm busted Six women were arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation after it uncovered a porn site on the Net operating in San Lorenzo Village in Makati December 11. Chris Cole, also known as Antonio Lopez, and […]
Read More...Teenagers perish in Davao's killing fields
December 6, 2002 · By Carlos H. Conde
DAVAO CITY – In one of the many hovels crammed inside Bankerohan, this city’ s largest public market, Christmas is about to come and go unnoticed once more. While the Alia family is no stranger to a joyless Christmas, this year ‘s yuletide has been exceptionally sad. The family is still mourning the death of […]
Read More...Poverty and Family Abuse Force Davao's Children to the streets
December 6, 2002 · By Carlos H. Conde PCIJ
DAVAO CITY – In 2000 and 2001, Davao City was adjudged the country’s “Most Child-Friendly City” by the National Council for the Welfare of Children, a government body under the Office of the President. This year, however, Davao failed to get the recognition because of what local officials here have dismissed as negative noises coming […]
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