December, 2020
Philippines Takes Step to Protect Children
December 11, 2020 · By Carlos H. Condefor www.hrw.org
The Philippines House of Representatives took an important step this week to protect children with the passage of a bill raising the age of sexual consent from 12 years, one of the lowest in the world, to 16. The proposed legislation, which must still pass the Senate to become law, will make it a crime for any adult to […]
Read More...Huge rise in reports of online child abuse images
December 11, 2020 · By Branwen Jeffreys for www.bbc.com
Huge rise in reports of online child abuse images Reports of child abuse images online increased by almost 50% during lockdown, according to the Internet Watch Foundation. In the 11 weeks from 23 March, its hotline logged 44,809 reports of images compared with 29,698 last year. The increase follows months in which both adults and […]
Read More...The Road to Extinction
December 11, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Road to Extinction Shay Cullen 11 December 2020 What a happy world it would be if all its living species lived in harmony- plants, animals and humans. It’s an utopian dream, some say, impossible in this world of modern urban living, say others. It does happen. In the last remaining forests of the Amazon, […]
Read More...We are born equal before God
December 11, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
We are born equal before God, Eternal Goodness and Truth, but not before the Godless loveless world Lord. May we accept all people as you did Jesus and may we be accepted and respected no matter our race or the color of our skin or our situation in life. We stand with the people excluded, […]
Read More...Morning Prayer Thursday, 10 Dec.
December 10, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Morning Prayer Thursday, 10 Dec. John Ch.17 Shay Cullen We thank you Lord for teaching us the rights and dignity of every human person. You taught by example, by doing good and befriending the Poor, the outcasts, the abused and exploited the Women and children and calling us your friends and not Your servants. May […]
Read More...Thank you Lord for the gift of life
December 9, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Thank you Lord for the gift of life. And that I have the chance and privileged to be your friend to serve and help The children, to guide and advise, to support and encourage them. I am blessed Lord with true friends that share the work and challenges and may we always be together in […]
Read More...Protect children from online abuse
December 8, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Protect children from online abuse May the EU retain and improve the existing law to filter and trace child pornography and stop the grooming of children. Protect them from evil and abuse and extortion. May the internet server providers block the abusers and good police bring them to justice. As you said Lord Jesus, a […]
Read More...18 November: End Child Sex Abuse Day
December 7, 2020 · By Council of Europe for www.coe.int
2020 Edition – Preventing risky behaviour by children: child self-generated sexual images and/or videos 18 November: End Child Sex Abuse Day Each year, the Council of Europe invites its partners to focus on a specific topic on the occasion of the European Day. The 2020 edition of the European Day focuses on “Preventing risky behaviour […]
Read More...Commission to present mandatory rules for platforms to ‘detect, report, and remove’ online abuse
December 7, 2020 · By Samuel Stolton | EURACTIV.com for www.euractiv.com
Commission to present mandatory rules for platforms to ‘detect, report, and remove’ online abuse The European Commission will propose legislation later this year and in 2021 that will force online platforms to undertake measures to stop the spread of online child abuse, the EU’s home affairs chief Ylva Johansson announced on Friday (24 July). “We […]
Read More...E.U. Privacy Rule Would Rein In the Hunt for Online Child Sexual Abuse
December 7, 2020 · By Gabriel J.X. Dance and Adam Satariano for www.nytimes.com
Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. A showdown looms. E.U. Privacy Rule Would Rein In the Hunt for Online Child Sexual Abuse Privacy concerns in Europe have led to some of the world’s toughest restrictions on companies like Facebook […]
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