May, 2019
Religious, rights groups fight ‘red tagging’ in Philippines
May 9, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A group of nuns and priests have asked the Philippines’ highest court for legal protection against threats to their lives after they were tagged as having links to terror groups by the military. The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) joined other human rights organizations in filing a petition on May 6 for writs of amparo and habeas […]
Read More...Myanmar massacre reporters freed in mass amnesty
May 9, 2019 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Reuters pair walk free after spending more than 500 days in jail in case that sparked international condemnation Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were among 6,520 Myanmar prisoners freed on May 7 in a mass presidential amnesty. The Reuters reporters were convicted last September of breaking the Official Secrets Act in a case that […]
Read More...1 Million Animal And Plant Species Are At Risk Of Extinction, U.N. Report Says
May 9, 2019 · By www.npr.org
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity’s burgeoning growth is putting the world’s biodiversity at perilous risk. Some of the report’s […]
Read More...Philippines cybersex crackdown sparks concern over care for child victims
May 8, 2019 · By Matt Blomberg for www.reuters.com
MANILA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Chang has no desire to go home to her parents, at least not yet. The 18-year-old Filipina has lived in a shelter since being rescued four years ago from a neighbor who forced her to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam for overseas predators. “When I am ready […]
Read More...YouTuber Austin Jones gets 10 year prison sentence
May 8, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A former YouTube star has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the US after pleading guilty to a charge of receiving indecent images of children. Austin Jones admitted encouraging six underage girls to send him sexually explicit videos in private messages, telling some they needed to “prove” that they were his biggest fans. […]
Read More...British teacher, 42, who plotted over Skype with Filipino mother to sexually abuse her daughters aged as young as FOUR is jailed for five years
May 7, 2019 · By HARRY HOWARD FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A British music teacher who plotted to sexually abuse girls as young as four in the Philippines has been jailed. James Alexander, 42, was caught by the National Crime Agency after he sent money to known facilitators who had live-streamed child sexual abuse from Iligan City, in Northern Mindanao. He was arrested on June 30, […]
Read More...Myanmar: Women, Girls Trafficked as ‘Brides’ to China
May 7, 2019 · By Human Rights Watch for www.hrw.org
(Yangon) – The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 112-page report, “‘Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go’: Trafficking of Kachin ‘Brides’ from Myanmar to China,” documents the selling […]
Read More...Alleged IRA member Marley sentenced to seven years for rape of two boys
May 7, 2019 · By Fergal O'Brien for www.rte.ie
An alleged IRA member has been sentenced to a total of seven years in jail for raping and sexually assaulting two teenage boys in the early 1990s in what was described as a “republican safe house”. Seamus Marley, originally from the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but with an address at Belfield Court, Stillorgan Road in Dublin, […]
Read More...Philippine bishops back workers’ May Day calls
May 6, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
As thousands of Filipinos marched in the streets of Manila in Labor Day protests on May 1, several Catholic bishops lent their voices to calls for decent jobs and employment security for workers. The bishops said ensuring job security for workers is one of the best gifts the Philippines government can give to its people. “First, […]
Read More...Philippine Church groups set candidate electing guidelines
May 6, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church groups in the Philippines have come up with a set of guidelines to help Filipinos choose their candidates in upcoming national elections. A two-layer “screening process” to vet aspiring lawmakers has been introduced this week, two weeks before the polls on May 13. The first layer ensures that a candidate believes in God and opposes a […]
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