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Fr Shay Cullen wins 2016 Hugh O’Flaherty Humanitarian Award
September 2, 2016 · By Sarah Mac Donald for www.catholicireland.net
Columban missionary has uncovered and exposed widespread child sexual abuse and human trafficking involving children as young as 9 years abused by US personnel and sex tourists including local men. Well known Irish Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen has been selected as this year’s winner of the Hugh O’Flaherty Humanitarian Award. Fr Cullen has worked […]
Read More...PH losing P328B a year due to childhood stunting
August 31, 2016 · By Jee Y. Geronimo for www.rappler.com
Childhood stunting in Mindanao is at 40%, which is also the average for countries in sub-Saharan Africa MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is losing at least P328 billion ($7.06 billion) a year due to the impact of childhood stunting on education and workforce productivity, according to a report released Tuesday, August 30. Non-governmental organization Save […]
Read More...Pot Smoking May Double Risk of Testicular Cancer
August 31, 2016 ·
Pot Smoking May Double Risk of Testicular Cancer Melanie Haiken Today’s headline was pretty bold: Smoking pot leads to double the risk of developing testicular cancer. Testicular cancer is on the rise, and experts have been trying for awhile to figure out why. Now, after comparing groups of young men who smoked and those who […]
Read More...Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance
August 30, 2016 · By Robin McKie for www.theguardian.com
Researchers believe widespread use of fungicides on crops is reducing effectiveness of frontline medicines Scientists have warned that potentially deadly fungal infections are acquiring resistance to many of the medicines currently used to combat them. More than a million people die of fungal infections every year, including about 7,000 in the UK, and deaths are […]
Read More...Philippines child rapist David Shepherd convicted
August 19, 2016 · By Dorset for www.bbc.com
A prolific paedophile who filmed himself raping and abusing children in the Philippines has been found guilty. David Shepherd of Bridport, Dorset, admitted a number of offences but denied raping four children, one of whom was only eight years old. The 60-year-old’s string of sex crimes, including holding 20,000 indecent images, were heard at three […]
Read More...Nearly 18,000 have died in Syria state jails, says Amnesty
August 19, 2016 · By Middle East for www.bbc.com
Nearly 18,000 people have died in government prisons in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in 2011, according to Amnesty International. A new report by the charity, based on interviews with 65 “torture survivors”, details systematic use of rape and beatings by prison guards. Former detainees described so-called welcome parties – ritual beatings using […]
Read More...Wrongly accused US man freed from PH jail after 5 years
August 18, 2016 · By Associated Press / INQUIRER.net U.S Bureau for globalnation.inquirer.net
MANILA — An American man jailed in the Philippines for more than five years was freed Tuesday, August 2 after being acquitted of rape. A court in metropolitan Manila cleared Scott McMahon, of Seattle, after finding no clear evidence that he committed rape, as a Filipino woman alleged, a court official said on condition of […]
Read More...The Nauru files: cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
August 11, 2016 · By Paul Farrell, Nick Evershed and Helen Davidson for www.theguardian.com
The devastating trauma and abuse inflicted on children held by Australia in offshore detention has been laid bare in the largest cache of leaked documents released from inside its immigration regime. More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru – totalling more than […]
Read More...Nauru detention centre: Abuse and trauma reports leaked
August 11, 2016 · By Australia for www.bbc.com
More than 2,000 leaked reports detail widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia’s offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru. The “incident reports”, published by the Guardian, reveal that self-harm and violence are commonplace at the centre. Numerous reports relate to sexual assault and coercion of women […]
Read More...Child sexual abuse inquiry: Rudd vows to press on after Dame Lowell Goddard resignation
August 8, 2016 · By Sandra Laville for www.theguardian.com
Home secretary pushes ahead with finding new leader, saying ‘success of this inquiry remains an absolute priority’ The chair of the public inquiry into institutional child abuse has resigned, saying it was beset with a “legacy of failure” that was hard to shake off. Justice Lowell Goddard, who was appointed in February last year to […]
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