Topic: Human Trafficking
SAVING THE TRAFFICKED WOMEN AND CHILDREN
February 9, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The trafficking of persons especially young girls is a worldwide multi-billion dollar business that exploits several million young girls and some boys; many are under-age, sold as sex slaves into the bars and brothels of South-east Asia. Others are picked up by middle-aged paedophiles and used as live-in sex partners to […]
Read More...SAVING THE CHILDREN FROM DRUGS, POVERTY, AND PROSTITUTION
January 18, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen When I first came to the beautiful Philippines as a missionary in 1969, I got to know and love the friendly, kind, Filipino people and I knew I would be happy here. But Missionary life is full of challenges and taking a stand for the downtrodden and the oppressed and fighting for […]
Read More...UN: Increase in global child trafficking 'worrying'
December 14, 2012 · , GMA News>World | December 13, 2012 9:51am
VIENNA — Children, most of them girls, now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years, a UN agency said Wednesday. Girls under 18 made up two thirds of all trafficked children and now constitute 15-20 per cent of the total number of all detected victims, the […]
Read More...The Great and the Good Defenders of Children
December 7, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Great and the Good Defenders of Children by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) It’s great to have the good news of the rescue of children from sexual exploitation. The rescue this week of six trafficked […]
Read More...FAIR TRADE IS JUSTICE IN ACTION
October 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
FAIR TRADE IS JUSTICE IN ACTION By Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) There is good news in the Philippines these days as the framework agreement for a way forward towards a peace settlement in Mindanao has been […]
Read More...The Rich Grow Richer, the Poor Poorer
August 3, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Margie was just a young woman, about 23, freshly trafficked and lured from the province to the Philippine sex industry in Angeles city with the promise of earning money as a waitress to help her family. Still innocent in the ways of the lustful officials, sex tourists and bar operators, she applied last 25th June for a work […]
Read More...Secretary De Lima Vows Justice for Human Trafficking Victim
May 4, 2012 · , doj.gov.ph
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Monday vowed to pursue the human trafficking syndicate which allegedly victimized a Filipina worker who labored in Hong Kong without pay for more than two years.
Read More...United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review
November 28, 2011 ·
Jubilee Campaign promotes the human rights and religious liberty of ethnic and religious minorities; advocates the release of prisoners of conscience imprisoned on account of their faith; advocates for and assists refugees fleeing religious based persecution; and protects and promotes the dignity and safety of children from bodily harm and sexual exploitation.
Read More...Sen. Cayetano hits Palace downplay of sex tours
September 27, 2011 · By Cathy Yamsuan, Philippine Daily Inquirer
How exactly would Malacañang know if a tourist was coming to the Philippines for sex? Did he check a box on his visa application indicating so? Senate women and youth committee chairperson Pia Cayetano wanted to know in a privilege speech she delivered Monday, after the Palace downplayed last week a claim made by US Ambassador […]
Read More...UN Human Trafficking protocol endorsed
May 12, 2011 · By Sutthida Malikaew
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, […]
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