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US TROOPS IN ANGELES CITY
January 25, 2000 ·
Published in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (January 25, 2000) ANGELES CITY-Fearing an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases, this city’s lone woman councilor has urged restricted activities of 2,000 American troops participating in military exercises with Filipino soldiers. “They should be tightly reined,” said Councilor Susan Pineda told the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement. […]
Read More...Sex Tour Crackdown Urged
January 24, 2000 ·
Published in The Manila Times (January 24, 2000) SENATOR Loren Legarda yesterday urged the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to crack down on the Philippine agents, of a New York firm which a US congresswoman and a feminist group earlier accused of running sex tours in the […]
Read More...Unicef Child Sex Trafficking Must End
January 23, 2000 ·
Published in The Manila Times (January 23, 2000) NATIONS must fight the greed and brutal disregard for human rights which underpin the worldwide trafficking in children and women, most often for sexual exploitation, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Carol Bellamy. Speaking in Tokyo at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on trafficking in Persons, […]
Read More...8 doomed convicts spared
January 21, 2000 ·
Published in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (January 21, 2000) EIGHT convicts were spared the lethal injection when the Supreme Court commuted their sentences to reclusion perpetua, a jail term, of 40 years or less. Of the eight, a father who raped his daughter four times and a guardian who raped his ward “a hundred times” […]
Read More...Now, 'only' 4 Pupils Will Share Books
January 19, 2000 ·
Published in Today (January 19, 2000) EDUCATION officials call this good news, but for millions of public elementary pupils and high-school students, sharing a book with four classmates instead of eight is still a miserable situation. Education Secretary Andrew Gonzalez announced yesterday that after getting rid of graft and corruption in the textbook acquisition process, […]
Read More...Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation, and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Indonesia
January 1, 2000 ·
Published in the Child Workers of Asia January 01, 2000 This is an extract of a report prepared for Indonesia, which commissioned a study on the situation of the children in especially difficult circumstances covering the issue of child labour, street children and sexually exploited children. The Indonesian version of this report was published soon. […]
Read More...News Photograph of some youth victims of the killings in Davao
July 13, 1999 ·
The SUNSTAR July 13, 1999 13 Kids Summarily Executed DAVAO CITY – Children’s rights advocates here expressed alarm over several unresolved summary executions of teenagers and young adults suspected of theft and other petty crimes. Data compiled by the tambaya Center, a private institution for abused children, showed that at least 13 children and young […]
Read More...100 Kids Abused Daily
May 2, 1999 · By ECPAT Newsletter, BBCWorld
Published in the ECPAT Newsletter May 1999 Sri Lanka: The first study prepared by Protecting Children and Environment Everywhere-PEACE (ECPAT-Sri Lanka) on the scale of child sexual abuse in Sri Lanka has concluded that 100 young people are sexually exploited or abused every day on the island. The study on sexually abused children concludes that […]
Read More...Swiss Paedophile Sentenced to Jail
May 1, 1999 ·
The Criminal Court of Basle sentenced a 36 year old Swiss citizen to six years in jail on 9th June 1999. PM was convicted of having sexually abused at least 13 children in the Philippines between 1989 and 1996.
Read More...Thailand: Memorandum Between NGOS, Police and Government on the Treatment of Trafficked Children
May 1, 1999 ·
June 30th 1999, in Bangkok, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on behalf of the Office of the Prime Minister, the Department of Social Welfare, the National Police Forces, the Global Alliance against Trafficking in Women and Children and The National Council of Children and Youth.
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