#HumanRights #Environment Global Warming Can be StoppedFr. Shay Cullen One of the most famous and committed protectors of the natural world and defender of the planet is David Attenborough. He gave a speech online to the UN members of the Security Council on climate change and security this week. Climate change is disrupting our world…
#HumanRights #Racism The Holocaust and Freedom from RacismShay Cullen29 January 2021 Every year on 27 January, the most horrific crimes of genocide and mass murder on an industrial scale by the criminal Nazi regime in Germany are remembered. As Spanish philosopher George Santayana said, “They who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” These…
#HumanRights #Children Can President Duterte Make the ISPs Obey the Law?Fr. Shay Cullen15 January 2021 The massive increase in child sexual abuse videos and images transmitted online over the internet passing through the servers of the Internet service providers (ISPs)- Globe Telecom and PLDT /Smart- has increased from 19,000 in 2019 to 47,937 in 2020…
#HumanRights #Children Discovering Human DignityShay Cullen9 January 2021 When I see the newly arrived children- all victims of human right violations and sexual abuse- healing and recovering in our Preda Foundation home and striving to be “good,” to be a “better person”, somehow thinking they are “bad,” I and the Preda staff continuously tell them…
#HumanRights #COVID19ph Recommendations on meeting the marginalized’s needs in the pandemicby Eduardo C. Tadem ‘Congress should quickly enact legislation that will impose a wealth tax on the richest Filipino families to raise revenue for COVID-19 measures’ On March 8, 2020, the Philippine government declared a state of public health emergency due to rising cases of…
Lessons despots never learnWalden Bello At the wake of former National Bureau of Investigation “counter-terrorism” chief Raul Manguerra, Secretary of Justice Menardo Guevarra said that he regretted Manguerra’s demise because “the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Law is about to enter a critical phase.” Skewed priorities The priorities of the Duterte administration could not be clearer.…
Christmas Newsletter for 2020Shay Cullen19 December 2020 We are sharing with you some of the highlights of the work of Preda Foundation in 2020. We at Preda wish you all a blessed Christmas. Many children savedAs many as a hundred children have been saved and recovered at the five Preda homes for abused children in…
#HumanRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen The Empowerment of WomenShay Cullen4 December 2020 The empowerment of women and girls is a most urgent need in today’s world where discrimination, violence and exploitation of women and girls, especially in the developing world, is tearing the heart out of society and family life causing human suffering, exclusion, sickness and death. Education…
#HumanRights Human Trafficking: A Scourge on HumanityShay Cullen20 November 2020 Human trafficking and child sexual abuse is still alive and thriving in the Philippines. Online sexual abuse of children is everywhere, it seems, and more has to be done by the telecommunication corporations to stop it. That’s why this heinous crime against small children to…
#HumanRights #ChildrensMonth Speech to the Ministers of the Council of Europe This is Children’s Month and I share with you my speech to the Ministers of the Council of Europe made last Thursday 10th November 2020. Madam Secretary General of the Council of Europe Dear Chairman, Dear Ministers’ Deputies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for…
#HumanRights [People] Can Humanity Ever Be United in Doing Good?Fr. Shay Cullen The latest letter of Pope Francis, his Encyclical, Fratelli Tuttii “Brothers and Sisters All,” is one that should touch every heart, stimulate our minds, awaken our conscience, warm our emotions and motivate us to do good and make this a happier, just and…
Duterte has forfeited the Philippines’ EU trade privileges By Joseph Purugganan In 2014, Trade Justice Pilipinas supported the Philippines’ pursuit of favorable trade privileges from the EU, hoping they would deter human rights abuses. Six years later, that hope has disappeared, and so should those privileges. On 17 September, the European Parliament issued a resolution…
The Explosion of Child Abuse OnlineFr. Shay Cullen02 October 2010 The Covid-19 pandemic is on everybody’s mind, weighs on the spirit and invades the body, paralyzes social life, and cripples the world economy. Yet, people are adapting, surviving, recovering, and are resilient. They, but a few, are coping with the new normal, a reality that…
Corruption and Spread of Covid-19 Fr. Shay Cullen 24 September 2020 There are many global threats facing the world today. The most serious in everybody’s mind is the Coronavirus pandemic with 200,000 dead in the USA alone and spreading. It is a cause of shock and realization that we humans for all our economic, military…
We All Must Change to Defeat Covid-19 Fr. Shay Cullen 21 August 2020 The catastrophe is upon us. The world is suffering and in shock as hundreds of thousands of people are dying from the coronavirus and economies are in chaos. This is because humans disrupted the natural world and caused this deadly virus to…
Just Judges Implement the Law for Abused Children Fr. Shay Cullen Justice has been done and seen to be done by Judge Maria Angelica T. Paras-Quiambao of the Regional Trial Court Branch 59 in Angeles City, Pampanga lasts 11 June 2020. In an 81-page decision, she found Christina Limpin Mendoza, 22, guilty beyond reasonable doubt…
History is Made as Social Issues Challenge Politics Fr.Shay Cullen Something has happened that is really changing the world besides the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is changing our lifestyles, our economy, and medical practices. But a greater social movement is underway as seen in numerous demonstrations by many thousands of protesters around the world. It…
US and China Spar over the Philippines Fr. Shay Cullen 27 June 2019 The fishermen of Masinloc and Sta. Cruz, Zambales had fished the Scarborough Shoal for generations. In the past several years, the Filipino fishing boats have been harassed and prevented from fishing near the fish-rich shoal by the incursion of Chinese fishing and…
When the Light Shines Again Fr. Shay Cullen 19 June 2020 It was a happy day for Joshua. He graduated from the Preda vocational training program and proudly held a student’s driver’s license and his graduation certificate while the camera clicked to record the moment and everyone there applauded. It was his day when the…
Are PLDT and Globe Enabling the Transmission of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children? Fr. Shay Cullen 11 June 2020 The Internet Server Providers (ISP’s) such as PLDT and Globe in the Philippines and thousands around the world must be challenged and held accountable for allegedly failing to block effectively, with the latest AI-enabled software, the…
