Topic: Human Rights
Statement of Fr. Sean Purcell,
February 8, 2001 ·
Feb 1 & 2 were very interesting days in Davao. This was the climax of the libel case filed by Mayor Benjamin De Guzman against Fr. Shay Cullen, the Columban priest of PREDA, Olongapo. Fr Cullen was to be arraigned for this case before Judge Robillo in Sala 13 of RTC. The case was filed […]
Read More...UN Human Trafficking protocol endorsed
January 1, 2001 ·
by Sutthida Malikaew After long negotiations the United up with trafficking in persons, which was endorsed by UN member states in December 2000. However, there is still a lot of hard work left to do for NGOS. Negotiations were concluded on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, […]
Read More...Rehabilitation on Instead of incarceration in Jamaica
January 1, 2001 ·
Recognition that one has a drug problem is the most important prerequisite to being accepted in the Drug Court Programme in Jamaica. In two designated Magistrate Courts in Kingston and Montego Bay, it is now possible to avoid incarceration or a heavy fine for possession of marijuana, cocaine or heroin or even crimes committed while […]
Read More...ECPAT-USA Continues Work with Airlines, US Military
October 4, 2000 ·
The airlines industry worked to defeat the Grassley amendment that would have against child sex tourism. Despite that setback, ECPAT-USA has made important progress in the tourism education program. A travel industry education piece has been drafted andwill be sent to partners in the travel industry soon. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is now […]
Read More...Prosecutor’s Resolution
April 25, 2000 ·
R E S 0 L U T I 0 N
This is a complaint for Libel filed by Davao City Mayor Benjamin C. de Guzman against Father Shay Cullen, an Irish Catholic Missionary and the President and Executive Director of People’s Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance (PREDA) Foundation Inc., based in Olongapo City.
Read More...13 Convicts on Death Row are over 70 yrs old, say Lawyers
April 7, 2000 ·
AT least 13 of the 981 men now on death row are more than 70 years old and should have been given the lighter sentence of reclusion perpetual the Free Legal Assistant Group (Flag) said yesterday.
Maria Socono Diokno, Flag secretary general, noted that the elderly inmates, mostly convicted rapists, have been languishing at the maximum security compound of the New Bilibid Prisons awaiting the Supreme Court’s review of their cases.
Read More...Vatican Lauds Moratorium on RP Executions
April 3, 2000 ·
WHERE there used to be only death and persecution, lights were turned on last week to celebrate the moratorium on executions in the Philippines.
The Vatican’on Saturday lighted up the ancient Roman Colosseum as a message that Philippine government leaders have been enlightened to respect the value of human life, according to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Teodoro Bacani.
Read More...8 doomed convicts spared
January 21, 2000 ·
EIGHT convicts were spared the lethal injection when the Supreme Court commuted their sentences to reclusion perpetua, a jail term, of 40 years or less.
Of the eight, a father who raped his daughter four times and a guardian who raped his ward “a hundred times” escaped execution because of the prosecution’s failure to cite the father-daughter and guardian-ward relationship on the charge sheet.
Read More...PREDA Answer
November 22, 1999 ·
Counter-Affidavit
I, FR. SHAY CULLEN, Irish, of legal age, with postal address at PREDA Foundation, Inc., Upper Kalaklan, Olongapo City after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law do hereby depose and say :
Read More...Libel Case of Davao Mayor
October 27, 1999 ·
Republic of the Philippines City of Davao SS AFFIDAVIT -COMPLAINT I, BENJAMIN C. de GUZMAN, of legal age, married, resident of Davao City, Philippines, after having been sworn to in accordance with law, do hereby depose and say: 1. That I am a public officer, being the City Mayor of the City of Davao and […]
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