March, 2018
A Victory for Children’s Rights
March 9, 2018 ·
A Victory for Children’s Rights Fr. Shay Cullen 9 March 2018 After a French court acquitted a 30-year old man of child rape after he had sexual relations with an 11-year old, the public was outraged and rightly so. The judge ruled that unless it could be proven that he had used force or intimidation, […]
Read More...Latest: Gardaí investigating child sex allegations release man without charge
March 8, 2018 · By www.irishexaminer.com
Update – 9.18pm: Gardaí investigating the alleged sexual exploitation of children in Munster have released a man without charge. A file is to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Six women and four men remain in custody in garda stations throughout Munster. 5.59pm: Child sex allegations at ‘extreme higher end of the scale’ […]
Read More...11 arrested over child sex abuse ring, In Ireland
March 8, 2018 · By Cormac O’Keeffe for www.irishexaminer.com
Eleven people — six women and five men — have been arrested in relation to a suspected child sex abuse ring in Limerick. Those arrested are across the generations, some as young as their 20s and include people in their 70s. It is understood this operation relates to a small number of child victims but […]
Read More...France to set legal age of sexual consent at 15
March 8, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
France plans to fix the legal age of sexual consent at 15, meaning sex with someone younger than that would be considered rape. Equality Minister Marlène Schiappa welcomed the move, which follows advice from doctors and legal experts. Currently, prosecutors must prove sex with someone under 15 was forced in order to bring rape charges. […]
Read More...Myanmar: Forced starvation of Rohingya highlights danger of premature returns
March 7, 2018 · By Amnesty International for www.amnesty.org
Reacting to the UN’s claim that Myanmar is continuing its campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya including through “forced starvation”, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: “The Myanmar authorities must end all operations aimed at forcing Rohingya out of their homeland, whether at gunpoint or through starvation.” “The UN’s […]
Read More...Child Marriages Drop By Half In India, Results In Global Decline: UNICEF
March 7, 2018 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.ndtv.com
MUMBAI: The proportion of girls getting married in India has nearly halved in a decade, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday, which has contributed significantly to a global decline in child marriage. UNICEF said 25 million child marriages were prevented worldwide in the last decade, with the largest reduction seen in South […]
Read More...Porn check critics fear data breach
March 7, 2018 · By Zoe Kleinman for www.bbc.com
The Open Rights Group says it fears a data breach is “inevitable” as the deadline approaches for a controversial change in the way people in the UK access online pornography. Details of an age verification tool developed by a major porn site owner were revealed at the weekend. From April 2018, porn site visitors in […]
Read More...Bursting at the seams: Philippine detention centers
March 6, 2018 · By Rick Rocamora for www.rappler.com
Detainees face inhumane punishment even before they are convicted of a crime Thousands who escaped death from President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign considered themselves lucky until they were committed to detention centers. They never expected that the jails would be so unsanitary, congested, and unfit for humans. The condition of our jail system clearly violates […]
Read More...Church may have ‘conspired to enable child sex abuse’
March 6, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
Senior figures in the Church of England may have conspired to enable the sexual abuse of children, an inquiry has heard. A lawyer representing victims suggested the Church ignored abuse convictions and allowed records to be burnt. The solicitor, David Greenwood, said victims were “silenced” by the Church. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse […]
Read More...Priest tempts fate in crusade against Philippine killings
March 5, 2018 · By Melo Acuna, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Redemptorist Father Amado Picardal says he has lost sense of fear He was jailed and tortured for seven months when he was 17 years old for distributing leaflets against the military rule of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the early 1970s. Since then, Amado Picardal, now a 64-year-old Redemptorist priest, has lost his “sense […]
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