January, 2018
Syria child evacuees may be used as bargaining chips, UN warns
January 2, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
A senior UN official says he fears children waiting to be evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips. The UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, told the BBC he believed that rebels had agreed to free government workers in exchange for the children. Another […]
Read More...Unicef says scale of attacks on children in conflicts is shocking
January 2, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
The UN children’s fund says the scale of attacks on children in the world’s conflict zones reached “shocking” levels in 2017. In a new report, Unicef said there was widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect the most vulnerable. Unicef director Manuel Fontaine said children were being targeted in their homes, schools […]
Read More...Hear the cries of victims of sexual abuse
January 2, 2018 · By Father Shay Cullen, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Lack of justice is a major barrier preventing victims recovering from their ordeal The shocking and almost unbelievable disclosures in recent years throughout the developed world, and most recently in Australia at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, leave people shocked. The inquiry is looking into the response, or the lack […]
Read More...TRAVEL BAN: Radical new laws to ban paedophiles and sex offenders from foreign travel are to be unveiled in new year
January 2, 2018 · By Ed Carty for www.thesun.ie
Plans to expand the passport “stop list” have been drafted to stop sex tourism. Four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father Shay Cullen, who has been rescuing street children in the Philippines since 1974, said paedophiles should be barred from going overseas in the same way as suspected terrorists. The Dublin-born priest said: “I expect the […]
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