January, 2018
Migrants’ heroine faces jail for people smuggling
January 31, 2018 · By James Badcock for www.bbc.com
A Spanish woman has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of migrants crossing the Strait of Gibraltar to get to Europe. So why is she now facing a lengthy prison sentence? When Helena Maleno gets the call, she does not think twice. As soon as she has been told that a boat has […]
Read More...Irish abortion referendum: Vote to be held in May
January 31, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
The Irish government has agreed to hold a referendum at the end of May on whether to reform the country’s near-total ban on abortion. The vote will decide whether to repeal a constitutional amendment that effectively bans terminations. Currently abortion is only allowed when a woman’s life is at risk, but not in cases of […]
Read More...India estimates 21 million of its girls are ‘unwanted’
January 30, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
The desire among parents in India to have sons instead of daughters has created 21 million “unwanted” girls, a government report estimates. The finance ministry report found many couples kept on having children until they had a boy. Authors called this a “subtler form” of son preference than sex-selective abortions but warned it might lead […]
Read More...Indonesia: Transgender women in Aceh detained by police
January 30, 2018 · By BBC Indonesian Jakarta and Acehfor www.bbc.com
Police in Indonesia have detained 12 transgender women, cutting their long hair and saying they were “coaching” them to behave like “real men”. Several beauty salons in Aceh province were raided over the weekend and transgender women working there taken to the local police station. The transgender women, who were also forced to wear men’s […]
Read More...Asda and Aldi stop energy drink sales to under-16s
January 30, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
The move comes after Waitrose announced that customers buying drinks after 5 March could be asked to show ID. Asda has become the first of the “big four” supermarkets to announce an age limit, which will apply to 84 high-caffeine drinks, also from 5 March. Aldi will apply it to soft drinks containing 150mg of […]
Read More...Teaching assistants: We are kicked, spat on, hit and sworn at
January 30, 2018 · By Catherine Bolsolver for www.bbc.com
“On a daily basis we are kicked, spat on, hit and sworn at. I encounter violence every day, normally multiple times a day. It’s incredibly rare to have a day where I haven’t been physically harmed in one way or another.” Emma works as a classroom assistant at a school in south-east England for children […]
Read More...A Reunion of Survivors
January 30, 2018 ·
Last October 27, 2017 39 former residents of the Preda Home for Children came to Preda to participate in an assessment and evaluation workshop to with the end in view of determining what component of the program worked for them and what did not work. These children were all victims of abuse and trafficking cared […]
Read More...4 drug suspects killed in Nueva Ecija
January 29, 2018 · By Anselmo Roque, Armand Galang for newsinfo.inquirer.net
CABANATUAN CITY — Four drug suspects were killed in separate buy-bust and checkpoint operations in Nueva Ecija province from 3 a.m. on Saturday to 3 a.m. on Sunday, police said. In Gapan City, Eddie Boy Manalastas, a suspected drug dealer, was killed during a police buy-bust operation in Barangay Mangino on Saturday. Police said Manalastas […]
Read More...40-yr-old man arrested for raping deaf-mute daughter
January 29, 2018 · By Divina Suson - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
ILIGAN CITY – Police authorities arrested a 40-year old carpenter in Malabang, Lanao del Sur for reportedly raping his 16-year old deaf-mute daughter. Chief Superintendent Graciano Mijares, the director of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police, said the suspect, Toto, was now being held under custody of the Malabang police while charges were […]
Read More...‘Just a joke,’ Roque says of Duterte’s remark about ’42 virgins’
January 29, 2018 · By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
ILOILO CITY — Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque dismissed as “a joke” President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement before Indian businessmen that he would make virgins a “come-on” to foreign investors and visitors to the Philippines. “That was clearly said in jest. There’s no need to clarify what was really a joke made by the President. If you […]
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