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Warrington man charged with child pornography
January 6, 2019 · By Staff Report for www.buckscountycouriertimes.com
WARRINGTON — A township man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being arrested by federal authorities for alleged child pornography. Michael Schamach, 32, was charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempted manufacture of child pornography, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia […]
Read More...Paedophile on the run for five years found behind false wall
January 6, 2019 · By Press Association 2018 for www.newsandstar.co.uk
A paedophile on the run from police for five years was finally arrested after he was found hiding behind a false wall. Brian Ward, 62, had evaded authorities since 2013 after he fled a trial for indecently assaulting a young girl, but was found by a police officer last week during a search of a […]
Read More...2018 was an Annus horribilis for human rights in South Asia
January 6, 2019 · By Biraj Patnaik for www.downtoearth.org.in
2018 has been a difficult year for human rights in South Asia. Crackdowns on the Right to Freedom of Expression intensified across the region. Enforced disappearances continued to scar communities in Pakistan and Bangladesh; civilian casualties remained at record highs in Afghanistan, civil society organisations continued to be harassed and shut down in almost every […]
Read More...UN expert ‘shocked’ by Egyptian reprisals against human rights defenders she met
January 5, 2019 · By Human Rights for news.un.org
Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Leilani Farha, said that Egypt “failed to adhere” to the assurances it provided to her, that “no person would be harassed, intimidated or subjected to reprisal for meeting or providing information” to her – or others in her official delegation – during the more than week-long visit. “I am shocked that […]
Read More...American priest dismissed for sex abuse still in Bangladesh
January 5, 2019 · By Rock Ronald Rozario and Stephan Uttom, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
An American priest who was dismissed from the clergy by the Vatican after being accused of sexually abusing as many as 30 teenagers in Bangladesh is still in the country. William Andrew Christensen, a priest in the Society of Mary, or Marianists, was removed from the priesthood in October 2010 after the Vatican judged allegations […]
Read More...Francis tells perpetrator priests: turn yourselves over, ‘prepare for divine justice’
January 5, 2019 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.org
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has called on Catholic priests and clergy who have abused children to turn themselves over to authorities, in what appears as the first such blanket command of a pontiff towards perpetrators his global institution long sought to hide or protect. In an annual address to the high-level prelates who run the […]
Read More...Abuse survivors request meeting with Francis in Panama over Costa Rica archbishop
January 4, 2019 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.org
ROME — Pope Francis began 2018 with a trip to a Latin American country where the focus was on his response to clergy sexual abuse. It appears 2019 will start in a similar way. Two abuse survivors are asking the pontiff to meet with them during his January trip to Panama, hoping to press the pope […]
Read More...Children bear brunt of Asia’s hunger pains
December 27, 2018 · By Michael Sainsbury for www.ucanews.com
As Christmas approaches, it’s worth noting that over half a billion people in Asia are still suffering from chronic hungerwhile, at the other end of the scale, obesity is increasing at an alarming rate. Africa is so often presented as the epicenter of world hunger but it is in Asia, which has triple the population, that […]
Read More...U.S. returns historic church bells to the Philippines
December 27, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga in 1901. After years of repeated demands for their return from Manila, the bells were brought home aboard a U.S. military plane on Dec. 11. The United States will […]
Read More...Child suicides on the rise in Bangladesh
December 26, 2018 · By Stephan Uttom and Rock Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
A lack of awareness among families and teachers as well as inadequate facilities for mental health care of children are behind an alarming rise in child suicides in Bangladesh, health experts and child rights activists say. There have been at least 293 child suicides and 22 attempted child suicides in the South Asian nation this year. This was […]
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