Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
A Twist to the Cross Border Trafficking
September 1, 1999 ·
Internet ‘being used to prop paedophilia’
Agence France-presse The Nation, Wednessday, March 25, 1998
MANILA – The world’s police forces are floundering as transcontinental operators peddle impoverished third children via cyberspace in the fast global-trading environment, experts said yesterday.
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER August 1999
August 2, 1999 ·
Summer Camps and Sports Fest The big event for all the youth and children in the PREDA recovery and development programs was the summer camp. It was held at a beach with good facilities, beautiful weather and plenty of sports, games and group educational sessions. One hundred participants attended the three-day experience. One answer to […]
Read More...Hundreds of Guatemalan Girls Prostituted, Says Report
August 1, 1999 ·
The study done by the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDH) in Guatemala reflects the alarming situation of hundreds of girls who are forced to prostitute themselves in nightclubs, said the head of the PDH’s Childrens Defense Office, Marilys de Estrada.
Read More...News Photograph of some youth victims of the killings in Davao
July 13, 1999 · By Jowel Canuday, The Sunstar
DAVAO CITY – Children’s rights advocates here expressed alarm over several unresolved summary executions of teenagers and young adults suspected of theft and other petty crimes.
Data compiled by the tambaya Center, a private institution for abused children, showed that at least 13 children and young adults with ages ranging from 16 to 25 were summarily executed from February 1999 to October this year.
Read More...Photos Help in Paedophile's Conviction
May 29, 1999 ·
PERTH – A 45-year-old boiler-maker became the first Australian to be jailed for sexually abusing children overseas after being convicted on the basis of photographs brought back from a holiday in Cambodia.
Read More...Taiwan: Child-sex Offenders to Feel Force of Law
May 21, 1999 · , The Asian Times
TAIPEI – Taiwanese parliament has passed a new law to convict child sex tourists. The law provides for prison terms of between three and 10 years for anyone having sex with girls aged under 14. Those who have sex with girls aged between 14-16 could be jailed for up to seven years. Names and photographs of offenders will also be made public in government bulletins.
Read More...Japan Tightens the Ban on Under-Age Sex
May 19, 1999 · , New York Times
TOKYO- The Japanese Parliament enacted a law in May aimed at banning child prostitution and child pornography. The law, which is to go into effect later this year, punishes those found guilty of paying for sex with children 17 and younger, and bans the sale, distribution, production, possession, import and export of child pornography.
Read More...ILO adopts Convention banning worst forms of child labour
May 5, 1999 ·
Geneva- International Labour Organisation (ILO) member States on June 17, 99 took a decisive step towards liberating scores of millions of children from slavery and debt bondage, prostitution and pornography, dangerous work and forcible recruitment for armed conflict.
Read More...100 Kids Abused Daily
May 2, 1999 · By ECPAT Newsletter, BBCWorld
Published in the ECPAT Newsletter May 1999 Sri Lanka: The first study prepared by Protecting Children and Environment Everywhere-PEACE (ECPAT-Sri Lanka) on the scale of child sexual abuse in Sri Lanka has concluded that 100 young people are sexually exploited or abused every day on the island. The study on sexually abused children concludes that […]
Read More...Swiss Paedophile Sentenced to Jail
May 1, 1999 ·
The Criminal Court of Basle sentenced a 36 year old Swiss citizen to six years in jail on 9th June 1999. PM was convicted of having sexually abused at least 13 children in the Philippines between 1989 and 1996.
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