April, 2019
The diets cutting one in five lives short every year
April 10, 2019 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.brisbanetimes.com.au
The food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year, an influential study shows. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. Salt – whether in bread, soy sauce or […]
Read More...Ban painful restraint techniques on children, say charities
April 10, 2019 · By Hannah Richardson for www.bbc.com
Ministers are under growing pressure to ban the painful headlocks, wrist and arm twists that can be used to control children’s behaviour in youth prisons. The national inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) recently concluded “pain compliance” measures were child abuse and should be outlawed. And the Equalities and Human Rights Commission ruled last week […]
Read More...Chile economy minister apologises for accepting sex doll gift at industry dinner
April 8, 2019 · By Rachael Revesz for www.independent.co.uk
Chile’s economic minister has apologised for accepting an inflatable sex doll at an industry dinner. Luis Cespedes received the gift from Roberto Fantuzzi, the head of the Chilean exporters’ association at an annual industry dinner on Tuesday night. The naked doll, which has a hole where its genitals would be, had a note taped […]
Read More...Modern slavery prosecutions rise by a quarter amid criticism of government crackdown
April 8, 2019 · By Lizzie Dearden for www.independent.co.uk
More than 5,000 potential modern slaves were referred for help last year but the CPS only prosecuted 239 suspects The number of modern slavery prosecutions has risen by more than a quarter in the past year, but still make up a small fraction of the thousands of potential cases flagged to authorities. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was […]
Read More...Broadband customers to get automatic compensation
April 8, 2019 · By Zoe Kleinman for www.bbc.com
Many customers who experience fixed broadband or landline loss will soon automatically receive compensation. The £8-per-day deal follows a new agreement between Openreach and five of the UK’s internet service providers. It will apply only when the fault takes longer than two days to fix. If an engineer does not arrive on schedule, or cancels […]
Read More...Child Sexual Abuse in the Institutional Church
April 5, 2019 ·
Child Sexual Abuse in the Institutional Church Fr. Shay Cullen 5 April, 2019 There are serious and profound changes taking place in the Catholic Church to acknowledge and prevent child sexual abuse by clerics and lay people, to prosecute the perpetrators and to heal the victims. It is the belated result of generations of historical […]
Read More...Journalist and Duterte Critic Arrested for Second Time in Philippines
April 5, 2019 · By www.thedailybeast.com
The head of a Philippine online news site that is among the few media agencies critical of President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Friday in a second legal complaint about her journalism in two months. Police served an arrest warrant to Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa after she arrived at Manila’s international airport. Ressa […]
Read More...VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for the Vatican City State and Vatican diplomats that requires the immediate reporting of allegations to Vatican prosecutors, as he seeks to create a model policy for the Catholic Church.
April 5, 2019 · By NICOLE WINFIELD for www.apnews.com
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for the Vatican City State and Vatican diplomats that requires the immediate reporting of allegations to Vatican prosecutors, as he seeks to create a model policy for the Catholic Church. The mandatory reporting provision, while limited in scope to Vatican officials, marks […]
Read More...Pope Francis names new bishops for southern Philippines
April 5, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Pope Francis named this week two new Filipino bishops who will serve in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao. The pontiff named Father Cosme Almedilla prelate of Butuan and Claretian missionary priest Leo Dalmao bishop of Isabela in Basilan province. Father Almedilla, who hails from Talibon Diocese in Bohol province, will succeed Bishop Juan de Dios […]
Read More...Filipinos file complaint against China’s Xi for crimes against humanity
April 4, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A group of Filipino fishermen and two former top officials of the Philippine government filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Chinese President Xi Jinping for alleged “crimes against humanity.” Former Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudswoman Conchita Carpio-Morales, along with Filipino fishermen, accused Xi and Chinese officials of causing […]
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