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Vatican, Unicef speak out against online violence and abuse, 2

Widespread abuse There are millions of victims of sexual assault all over the world. In late 2024, Unicef reported that 370 million girls and women...

Vatican, Unicef speak out against online violence and abuse, 1

AT A UNITED Nations high-level meeting in New York, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher of the Vatican said “technology is being used to exacerbate certain...

The failure of ISPs to curb online child abuse, 2

NOWADAYS, children are sexually abused in their own homes and secretly trafficked to brothels with false ID and forged birth certificates. An even greater...

The failure of ISPs to curb online child abuse, 1

A STUDY in 2022 revealed that two in 10 internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the Philippines had experienced online sexual abuse in...

The genocide in Gaza is driven by deception, 2

IT WOULD appear that United States President Donald Trump’s invitation to Hamas leaders to meet and discuss his latest ceasefire proposal in Doha, Qatar...

Life for a trafficked child in the sex industry, 2

THESE young girls are too ashamed to tell their parents of what happened to them. In the sex bar or brothel, the girls become...

No more safe spaces for journalists in Gaza, 2

‘Reasonable figure’ Also last week, a report in the Guardian newspaper said that as many as 62,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. A...

No more safe spaces for journalists in Gaza, 1

A HOSPITAL is supposed to be one of the safest places to go to amid armed conflict, like the war Israel is waging against...

Climate change, floods, typhoons, and wildfires, 2

RESEARCH shows there are approximately 1.9 to 2.3 million registered small-scale coastal Filipino fishermen in the Philippines. They are generally poor and depend on...

Climate change, floods, typhoons, and wildfires, 1

THE PHILIPPINES has suffered damaging floods despite the billions of pesos paid to contractors for hundreds of flood control projects, mostly in Bulacan province....