June, 2003
Irish priest discovers child torture rooms
June 29, 2003 · By Lynne Kelleher, Sunday World
Women and kids beaten in home’s filthy secret cells A crusading Irish priest has exposed the filthy prison cells where homeless women and children are kept and tortured in the Philippines. And Columban priest, Fr. Shay Cullen, is now calling on Irish people all over Ireland to write letters of protest to the government of […]
Read More...Call to help women and children in secret cells
June 24, 2003 ·
Dear friends and defenders of human rights, June 26 is the day to remember the victims of torture and abuse of human rights. Earlier this year, a group of Swedish Red Cross students on a social-educational mission went to the women and child care center run by the Olongapo City government. By accident they stumbled […]
Read More...Philippine News Digest 56
June 23, 2003 ·
Contents: -Number of children being affected bu HIV/AIDS is rising in Southeast Asia -In Asia, RP spends least on education Number of children being affected by HIV/AIDS is rising in Southeast Asia There are now 9,400 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in the Philippines, says the Joint United Nations […]
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