December, 2020
Legal breaches allowed Westpac customers to pay for child sexual abuse undetected, Austrac alleges
December 28, 2020 · By Ben Butler for www.theguardian.com
Legal breaches allowed Westpac customers to pay for child sexual abuse undetected, Austrac alleges Westpac’s failure to obey anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance laws allowed a customer to make payments to a person in the Philippines who was later arrested for child sex trafficking and livestreaming child sexual abuse, the financial intelligence agency alleges. The allegation is […]
Read More...Covid: Post-exposure antibody protection trialled
December 28, 2020 · By Rachel Schraer for www.bbc.com
Covid: Post-exposure antibody protection trialled Ten people have been given antibodies as a form of emergency protection after being exposed to coronavirus, in the first trial of its kind. The experimental jab is being offered to people who have been in close contact with a confirmed Covid-19 case within the past eight days. If it […]
Read More...Covid-19: The Philippines and its lockdown baby boom
December 28, 2020 · By Howard Johnson & Virma Simonette & Flora Drury for www.bbc.com
Covid-19: The Philippines and its lockdown baby boom Rovelie Zabala is heavily pregnant with her 10th child. As we talk, the 41-year-old leans at an awkward angle, leveraging all her back strength to hold her ninth child in her arms. “Carl, Jewel, Joyce…” As Rovelie names her children, six-year-old Charlie shoots his mother a look […]
Read More...Morning Prayer, December 28, 2020
December 28, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Morning Prayer, December 28, 2020 We start a new week Lord with the privileged to be your friend, to continue your unfulfilled mission. That is to bring Peace and justice, equality, to end hunger, and violence. With your inspiration that is our mission too while we help the children and teenagers in our care. Amen
Read More...EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
December 25, 2020 · By Leo Kelion for www.bbc.com
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech Big tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and harmful content under new rules unveiled by the European Commission. Fresh restrictions are also planned to govern their use of customers’ data, and to prevent the firms ranking their own services above competitors’ in search […]
Read More...The Christmas of Covid-19
December 25, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Christmas of Covid-19 Shay Cullen 24 December 2020 This Christmas season will be known as the unhappy Corona Christmas as so many will be separated from their families, unable to travel and be reunited. But it should not be an un-happy Christmas if we are healthy and safe from the infection. We have much […]
Read More...Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims
December 24, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims Pornhub has been sued by 40 women who say it profited from a sex-trafficking operation by a content partner. The women were all victims of Girls Do Porn, whose owners have been charged with offences by US officials. The victims allege that Pornhub and its […]
Read More...‘I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site’
December 24, 2020 · By Megha Mohan for www.bbc.com
Last year Rose Kalemba wrote a blog post explaining how hard it had been – when she was raped as a 14-year-old girl – to get a video of the attack removed from a popular porn website. Dozens of people then contacted her to say that they were facing the same problem today. The nurse […]
Read More...Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard Indicted on Sex-Trafficking Charges
December 23, 2020 · By Benjamin Weiser, Kim Barker, Catherine Porter and Grace Ashford for www.nytimes.com
Mr. Nygard was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities. A federal indictment in New York City accused him of recruiting dozens of women and teenage girls for sex. Peter Nygard, the Canadian fashion executive, has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and other crimes that involved dozens of women and teenage […]
Read More...1,135 new cases push Philippines’ COVID-19 tally over 451,000
December 23, 2020 · By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News for www.gmanetwork.com
The Philippines’ coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tally reached 451,839 on Tuesday after the Department of Health (DOH) announced 1,135 new infections as 13 laboratories failed to submit reports on time. Rizal recorded the highest number of new cases at 117, followed by Bulacan with 84, Quezon City with 71, Isabela with 39, and Laguna with […]
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