by Fr. Shay Cullen
from PREDA Foundation
http://www.preda.org/main/archives/2010/r10021001.html
Barcelona, Spain – The phone call came from a journalist  in Madrid  who read I was  in Barcelona giving a series of  lectures on  child protection and  the internet  and the new Philippine Anti-Child  Pornography Law – ” you have been  nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, please comment on the report that the “Internet” has been  nominated by the Italian  computer magazine “wired’  for that prestigious prize”, he asked. 
A weird question but it shows how important the internet has become in international …

by Artemio A. Dumlao
BAGUIO CITY (December 12, 2009) – Most victims of human trafficking around the world are being sold for sex, the Asia against Child Trafficking (Asia ACTs) claimed Saturdayon the occasion of the Day against Trafficking being celebrated around Asia and throughout the globe. 
 
Reminding everyone “of their responsibility to protect the children from being trafficked and exploited,” Magnolia Jacinto of the Asia ACTs citing the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2009 of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime that “79 percent of all global trafficking is …

by Fr. Shay Cullen
London, England.
I am writing this at the airport waiting for my flight to return to the Philippines after my research on the many means to make adults and children safe when using the internet. I learned that there are softwares that can really filter and block access to terrible web sites that show children being abused. Every image of child abuse is evidence of a terrible crime being committed. The more we allow these images to be shown and sold over the internet or on DVDs, children …

by Fr. Shay Cullen
from PREDA Foundation
While the watery floods killed and damaged hundreds of people in the Philippines, many of them children, another kind of flood continuously destroying the innocent lives of children and youth .That’s the flood of child pornography coming into the Philippines and more of it made here with Filipino children being abused, videotaped and transmitted over the Internet. Even during the floods, the Preda children crises center was rescuing victims of child sexual abuse. Displaced children need extra special protection from traffickers and pedophiles during calamities. …

by Fr. Shay Cullen
from PREDA Foundation
The United States has called for a boycott of a dozen Philippine exports because of the widespread use of child labor in agriculture, tobacco, pig raising, fireworks and the making of child pornography. The United States Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) acting under the US Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 and 2008 says some Philippines exports should be boycotted by US customers.
This is a devastating blow to the Philippine economy and should never happen but it is a …

by Fr. Shay Cullen
from PREDA Foundation
The trafficking of children and young women into the commercial sex industry by the hundreds of thousands and the spread of the sex industry fueled by easily available child pornography is the scandal of our beautiful country. “The complicity and connivance of government officials with investments in the sex business are tolerant and encourage it” said by a social worker in Angeles City who asked not to be named out of fear for her safety. Thousands of local and foreign sex tourists flock there to …

by Fr. Shay Cullen 
from PREDA Foundation
 
It was for Jennifer an all too familiar story similar to that of thousands in Asia and Eastern Europe. Born into poverty,living in a poor village on Negros Island in the Philippines and dreaming of better life Jennifer went  with a recruiter and her parents approval to work as a domestic helper in the capital Manila. But soon her naive dreams of earning a modest wage for a 12 hour day  to help her five brothers and sisters   were shattered when her employer and his …

by Father Shay Cullen
from PREDA Foundation
Every incident of the abduction and trafficking of children which is rampant in South East Asia and in particular, the Philippines cause me to feel angry and more determined to do all I can together with the courageous Filipinos I work with. We can only eliminate the evil by writing, campaigning, and building awareness that will change public opinion and hopefully ignite national shame and commitment to stop it. Politicians in the Philippines have failed to pass the anti-child pornography bill and so hundreds, if …