French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 12:53:01 +0000

French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides

The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts, and eight cases of serious depression among employees over a three-year span.

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Religious superiors to get training on nun abuse cases

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 14:06:26 +0000

Religious superiors to get training on nun abuse cases

VATICAN CITY – The head of the international umbrella group of nuns says religious sisters are increasingly speaking out about sexual and other forms of abuse by clergy and says their superiors must be better trained to understand the problem and respond.

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Australian priest charged with sex abuse of boy — police

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:46:54 +0000

Australian priest charged with sex abuse of boy — police

Australian police said Wednesday they had charged a Catholic priest with indecent assault of a 15-year-old boy more than two decades ago.

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‘No legalized medical marijuana under Duterte administration’

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:08:37 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte will not allow the legalized medical use of marijuana during his term, Malacañang reiterated on Tuesday.

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Execs in abuse of girls, women seen adding to impunity

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:15:54 +0000

The case of Gemma, a Grade 10 student in a public school here, could exemplify what a woman’s rights advocate called growing impunity abetted by public officials involved in abuses themselves and “casual remarks” made by leaders that belittle women.

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Senatorial bets want empowerment, protection of women in gov’t, overseas

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:12:39 +0000

Senatorial bets want empowerment, protection of women in gov’t, overseas

Senatorial aspirants expressed their support for women in their fight against abuse and inequality on International Women’s Day.

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‘I obeyed like a robot’: Abuse survivor tells of predator priest

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:49:33 +0000

Jamaican victim of sexual abuse, Denise Buchanan, poses in front Saint Peter's square on February 18, 2019, in Rome. - "I was 17 years old when I was raped by Brother Paul," Denise Buchanan, Jamaican, explains 40 years later. Her fight to have the Catholic Church recognize her status as a victim of this Jamaican priest illustrates the isolation of many victims of sexual abuse in the clergy against the denial of justice and omerta, exacerbated in poorer countries or states where the Church remains influential in society. Denise decided to become involved by becoming a member of the steering committee of a new global network of victims, ECA (Ending Clerical Abuse). (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Denise Buchanan was 17 when she was raped by a seminarian who continued to abuse her when he became a priest in her native Jamaica. The Catholic Church, she says, has offered her nothing but their “prayers.”

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