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Madagascar: Like the Philippines children held in life-threatening prison conditions
October 7, 2019 · By Amnesty International for www.amnesty.org
People who have not been found guilty of any crime are dying in Madagascar’s prisons due to appalling conditions, Amnesty International said today, as it released a report highlighting how the Malagasy authorities’ excessive use of pre-trial detention is harming the poorest people in society. The organization documented how, in 2017 alone, 52 out of […]
Read More...Predatory comments prompt YouTube ad suspension
October 3, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Mars, Lidl, Adidas and others have pulled all advertisements from YouTube after some were found next to clips used by predators to target children. Investigations by the BBC and the Times found tens of thousands of “predatory” accounts have been used to leave explicit comments on children’s videos. Problems with the video-sharing site’s reporting system have been blamed for letting […]
Read More...Climate strike in Australia: everything you need to know about Friday’s protest
September 30, 2019 · By Lisa Cox for www.theguardian.com
Thousands of Australian school students are again preparing to walk out of classrooms across the country to demand action on the climate crisis. The global mass day of action will take place on Friday 20 September, three days before the United Nations climate summit in New York. It follows strikes in March this year in […]
Read More...‘Chilling’ video shows blindfolded and shackled Uyghurs
September 27, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter for www.ucanews.com
Politicians and members of the Uyghur community have condemned a “chilling” video that shows hundreds of blindfolded and shackled Uyghur men being led from a train in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. The drone footage shows men wearing blue and yellow uniforms, with cleanly shaven heads and their eyes covered, sitting in rows on […]
Read More...U.S. arrests 1,700 ‘online child sex offenders’ in two-month operation
September 26, 2019 · By Agence France-Presse for www.rappler.com
The “Broken Heart” operation of April and May took aim at people who make and distribute child pornography, as well as those who receive and download it. It also went after people involved in trafficking children for sex, and pedophiles who travel around the country and abroad to sexually abuse children, the Justice Department said. The operation […]
Read More...Devon teacher found with child abuse images
September 26, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A teacher at a girls’ grammar school was caught with hundreds of child abuse images on his computers. Paul Wheller, 48, was arrested while teaching at Torquay Girls’ Grammar School, Devon. The teacher admitted three counts of making indecent images of children when he appeared at Exeter Crown Court. He was ordered to do a […]
Read More...US Congress inches closer to passing Hong Kong human rights bill
September 26, 2019 · By Aljazeera for www.aljazeera.com
The United States Congress has moved closer to passing legislation that would require an annual review of its trade and business policy towards Hong Kong, angering the Chinese government and giving a boost to the city’s pro-democracy movement. Members of the US House of Representatives’ committee on foreign affairs unanimously approved the Hong Kong Human Rights Acts on Wednesday, and […]
Read More...Australia probes PayPal amid child abuse payment fears
September 26, 2019 · By Agence France-Presse for news.abs-cbn.com
SYDNEY – (UPDATE) Australia’s financial regulator on Tuesday ordered an investigation into global money transfer platform PayPal, amid concerns it may be being misused by sex offenders to buy child abuse material from Asia. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) demanded an external auditor investigate “ongoing concerns” about breaches of the country’s anti-money […]
Read More...‘Revolutionary’ new class of cancer drugs approved
September 25, 2019 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
A “revolutionary” new class of cancer drug that can treat a wide range of tumours has been approved for use in Europe for the first time. Tumour-agnostic drugs do not care where the cancer is growing in the body as long as it has a specific genetic abnormality inside. UK doctors testing the drugs said […]
Read More...Prophetic response to a dictatorship
September 23, 2019 · By Mary Aileen D. Bacalso, Manila for international.la-croix.com
rivilege of the writ of habeas corpus, dissolved Congress, and closed media institutions. Father Ed Gerlock, chaplain of the Federation of Free Farmers, was one of several Catholic priests immediately arrested and thrown into prison after the declaration. He was traveling in the southern region of Mindanao, giving religious recollections, when he was arrested on the […]
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