October, 2015
The Philippine Age of Consent- 12 years old
October 30, 2015 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Philippine Age of Consent- 12 years old Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc For generations, the rape and sexual abuse of children has been a regular practice of the human species mostly by men but frequently assisted and enabled by women, too. Philippine laws to justify it have been passed, mostly by men, by setting the […]
Read More...Paedophile avoids jail after offering to ‘share’ unborn baby with other perverts
October 30, 2015 · By Adam Withnall for www.independent.co.uk
A man who distributed graphic images of child sex abuse and offered to “share” his own unborn baby with other paedophiles has walked free from court. Nathan Green avoided prison at Gloucester Crown Court despite sending and receiving graphic images of very young children and being “open about his perversions”. Police took Green’s child into […]
Read More...The Vanishing Filipino Overseas Workers.
October 29, 2015 · By Annie Kelly and Hazel Thompson for www.theguardian.com
Two years ago, Marilyn Porras Restor kissed her three children goodbye, wiped away their tears and told them she’d try to come home again soon. She left the family house, in a dusty neighbourhood in the city of General Santos in the Philippines, as she had done many times before. Only this time, she never […]
Read More...Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO
October 27, 2015 · By Sarah Boseley Health Editor for www.theguardian.com
UN health body says bacon, sausages and ham among most carcinogenic substances along with cigarettes, alcohol, asbestos and arsenic Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said, placing cured and processed meats in the same category as asbestos, alcohol, arsenic and tobacco. The report […]
Read More...Aeta Farmers and Preda Fair Trade Certified Organic
October 23, 2015 ·
*German human rights commissioner visits the Preda project *Ambassador’s Cup tournament nets big donation For the first time in Philippine history, mango fruits grown and harvested by the indigenous people of Zambales and Bataan have been internationally certified as organic and recognized as a top export product that can help hundreds of indigenous Aeta families. […]
Read More...Address of his holiness- POPE FRANCIS
October 22, 2015 ·
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Foreword by Kevin Hyland OBE, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
October 22, 2015 · By www.gov.uk
As the first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner I have been afforded an immense responsibility and duty in spearheading the United Kingdom’s response to modern slavery. Modern slavery in the year 2015 exists in a wide variety of brutal forms, including forced and bonded labour, child slavery, early and forced marriage and all forms of trafficking in […]
Read More...Homeless men sleep outside the Vatican, now with a place to stay.
October 20, 2015 · By Catholic News for www.catholicnewsagency.com
Vatican City, Oct 16, 2015 / 04:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After last night’s synod session Pope Francis didn’t go back to his residence at the St. Martha house as usual, but instead decided to pop by the Vatican’s new dormitory for homeless men. According to an Oct. 16 communique from the Vatican, the Pope left […]
Read More...Report to the Juvenile Justice Welfare Council (JJWC)
October 20, 2015 ·
Report to the Juvenile Justice Welfare Council (JJWC) Friday October 9 we woke up early to go to Manila with Mam Joan. We visited three centers. The first one we visited was Marikina Youth Home. It was very impressive but I also was a little bit shocked. Very young children behind bars. The rooms were […]
Read More...Penniless Nobel Laureate dies after private hospital refused to treat him
October 20, 2015 · By Manila Times for www.manilatimes.net
PEOPLE the world over are angered and disgusted over the news that the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry died last Saturday October 10 after being refused treatment at a Manila private hospital because he had no money. The wire services ran the story that Rappler on October 12 gave the title “Refused admission to Manila […]
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