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Most London sex workers 'not trafficked', says study
October 31, 2011 · , BBC News
The majority of interviewed migrant workers in the sex industry in London are not forced nor trafficked, says a report. The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) welcomed the new research by a team led by Dr Nick Mai. The Metropolitan Police said it worked hard to prevent trafficking. Last year the Association of Chief Police […]
Read More...Subic’s coal-fired plant must be cancelled
October 26, 2011 · , The Manila Times
The people of the Subic Bay area, of Olongapo City, Zambales province and neighboring places will suffer if the Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc’s project to build a coal-fired power plant in a barangay within the territory governed by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority pushes through. Not only the people of the present generation living in […]
Read More...Aboitiz named MAP Management Man of the Year
October 26, 2011 · By Daxim L. Lucas, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Erramon I. Aboitiz, president and CEO of Aboitiz Equity Ventures and Aboitiz Power Corp., is this year’s “MAP Management Man of the Year.” Aboitiz was given the prestigious award by the Management Association of the Philippines for “being a model of management excellence and dedication in the transformation of a regional business group into a […]
Read More...Hackers take down child pornography sites
October 24, 2011 · , BBC News
Hacktivist group Anonymous has briefly taken offline 40 sites it claims traded in images of child sexual abuse. As part of the action it published the names of 1,500 people who it says used a site known as “Lolita City”. The attacks were carried out as part of Operation Darknet which targeted abuse groups that […]
Read More...Statement of Solidarity from the People of Faith in Australia and Aotearoa
October 23, 2011 · By CAFCA
We, leaders and members of the clergy and church-based justice and peace advocacy programmes in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, are greatly shocked and saddened over the news that Italian missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio…
Read More...Coal-fired power plants kill
October 23, 2011 · By Rene Q. Bas Editor In Chief, The Manila Times
MORE and more neutral voices that are not those of anti-business leftists or those of environmental advocacy militants have joined the call for the government to reverse the policy on coal-fired power plants.
Read More...Are Mining Interests Behind The Assassination of Father Fausto?
October 21, 2011 ·
The Philippine Misereor Partnership Anti Mining Campaign strongly condemns and shares in the deep bereavement for another great loss in the aspirations of peoples and communities for a more just, peaceful and sustainably developed society.
Read More...Italian priest shot dead in North Cotabato
October 17, 2011 ·
An Italian Catholic priest who spent three decades working in the violence-plagued southern Philippines was shot dead inside his church compound on Monday, his superiors said.
Read More...America's child death shame
October 17, 2011 · , BBC News
Why is the problem of violence against children so much more acute in the US than anywhere else in the industrialised world, asks Michael Petit, President of Every Child Matters. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is […]
Read More...Real problem
October 11, 2011 · , Editorial, Philippine Daily Inqirer
There was a lot of hue and cry about the statement of US Ambassador Harry Thomas at a recent judicial conference on human trafficking that 40 percent of foreign male tourists visit the Philippine for commercial sex. At first the ambassador refused to change his statement when asked by Philippine officials to apologize for it, […]
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