Panic Spreads in Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines
Five days after Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the central Philippines, panic was spreading Wednesday and parched, hungry residents were resorting to increasingly desperate measures
Philippine Children Rescued From Sexual Abuse
In the quiet hours of the early morning, the convoy of police and social workers would rescue 13 children—from 8 to 17 years old—who they believe were being regularly sexually abused in live videos broadcasted online
The Woman Who Unmasked Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman started studying hackers before it was cool — in 1999, to be precise, after being introduced to the open source movement by a programmer friend. She got a preemptive whiff of the hacker collective Anonymous
Children Rescused From Being Sold for Sex
Earlier this week, IJM helped police rescue a 16-year-old girl and two 13- and 14-year old boys who were being sold for sex on Cebu streets
Sex Trafficking Survivors Set Free
Thanks to one remarkable girl, seven more young women were rescued this month from a bar where they had been routinely sold for sex. The youngest was only 12 years old, and all of the girls had been trafficked there when they were teens
Rescue Operation Frees Young Women Sold For Sex
This weekend, a new day began for girls rescued from a small bar selling underage girls for sex on one of Pampanga’s main streets. IJM assisted the Philippine National Police with a rescue operation on Friday, November 16, 2012
The Philippines Hunger Crisis
a global assessment of nutrition levels released on Tuesday, revealed that a total of 16 million Filipinos were considered undernourished from 2010 to present
Philippines Choke The Internet
The Philippines has approved measures to prosecute users that post defamatory comments on social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook
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