September, 2018
Four million UK children too poor to have a healthy diet, study finds
September 19, 2018 · By Patrick Butler for www.theguardian.com
Almost 4 million children in the UK live in households that would struggle to afford to buy enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other healthy foods to meet the official nutrition guidelines, a groundbreaking food poverty study reveals. The research, by the Food Foundation thinktank, says the diminishing ability of low-income families to pay for healthy food is […]
Read More...Cardinal Bo slams Myanmar military for brutality in Kachin State
September 19, 2018 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Myanmar’s military is still persecuting ethnic Kachin, the predominant Christian group in a conflict-torn part of the country, as well as Rohingya Muslims, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon has said. Speaking at a peace forum in South Korea, Cardinal Bo said the suffering the Rohingya have endured has captured the world’s attention and described their plight as […]
Read More...Inside the evil international trade of child porn: How sick perverts are feeding the shameful Australian industry and profiting from the rape and torture of babies
September 19, 2018 · By STEPHEN GIBBS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and WIRES for www.dailymail.co.uk
Australia is a shamefully major player in the international child pornography trade with offshore citizens producing depraved material which local perverts pay to watch online. Children and babies are being raped and tortured on camera overseas to satisfy sick Australian sexual appetites. A Ukrainian man who allegedly pictured himself raping his eight-month-old daughter for a […]
Read More...French cardinal to face trial over ‘cover up’ of priest’s sex abuse
September 19, 2018 · By The Local for www.thelocal.fr
A French Cardinal will go on trial in April accused of covering up the sexual abuse of children by a paedophile priest in his Lyon diocese over 25 years ago, a court ruled Tuesday. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the most senior French Catholic leader to be tried for allegedly failing to report a predator priest, will […]
Read More...Aung San Suu Kyi drops the ball on rule of law
September 18, 2018 · By Michael Sainsbury, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
Jailing reporters is the symptom; Myanmar’s legal system is the illness and its democracy can’t survive without a systematic fix In Myanmar and across the Western world, there is outrage at the jailing of two local Reuters journalists in Myanmar for seven years using antiquated colonial-era laws around state secrets — one of which was, […]
Read More...Indian Buddhist monk accused of molesting children
September 18, 2018 · By Saji Thomas, Bhopal for www.ucanews.com
Head of novice school placed in custody after complaints he sexually abused pupils A Buddhist monk in India has been remanded to judicial custody accused of abusing 15 minors who were training to be monks. Bhante Sanghpriya Sujoy, who heads Prajna Jyoti (light of truth) Novice School and Meditation Centre in the holy village of Bodh Gaya in […]
Read More...Sajid Javid threatens tech giants over online child sex abuse
September 18, 2018 · By https://www.bbc.com
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has warned he will “not be afraid to take action” against tech giants if they do not help to tackle child sexual abuse online. Mr Javid said he was “demanding” companies take “more measures” – or face new legislation. He added that some sites were refusing to take online abuse seriously […]
Read More...Philippine bishops vow no clergy sex abuse cover-ups
September 18, 2018 · By Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Filipino prelates react to Vatican official accusing pope of ignoring misconduct allegations against an American cardinal Amid recent reports of sex abuses committed by Catholic priests, especially in the United States, church leaders in the Philippines have vowed not to tolerate such criminal acts there. The country’s Catholic bishops said this “painful situation” is an […]
Read More...Outrage at jailing of journalists over Myanmar massacre
September 18, 2018 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Reuters reporters jailed for seven years for breaching state secrets law ‘in new low for press freedom’ The United Nations, diplomats and press freedom advocates have reacted with dismay to the jailing of two Reuters journalists under Myanmar’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act and called on the government to release them. A court in Yangon jailed […]
Read More...Bringing Hope to the Hopeless
September 14, 2018 ·
Bringing Hope to the Hopeless 11 September 2018 Dublin, Ireland There is now showing in Ireland a new film with the title Black ‘47. It is a story set in the year 1847 when Ireland was under British occupation and a devastating famine hit the poor of Ireland when their staple food, the […]
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