Mindanao Daily NEWS
Volume II, No. 132
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November 18, 2013
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BOC, AFP in Normin send troops, goods to Visayas By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
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AGAYAN de Oro City–– Task Force Diamond of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division is on their way Saturday from Surigao City to Leyte with another task force of soldiers from the 10th Infantry Division to help in the disaster relief operations. SEE FULL STORY/p.2
DONATIONS. Bureau of Customs District 10 officer in charge district collector Atty. Ruby Claudia M. Alameda, deputy collector Marvin Mison and Department of Social Welfare and Development officer Daisy L. Ramos inspect the food contents of container vans at the Mindanao Container Terminal for shipment to the Visayas as donations to Typhoon Yolanda victims. At left, Alameda and Mison inspect the confiscated rice at the Mindanao Container Terminal before shipment to the Visayas. The misdeclared contents of the container vans were confiscated in favor of the government. Mindanao Daily News photos by Gerry L. Gorit
‘Sweetie’ project highlights need for effective measures vs. child pornography By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL of Bulatlat.com
Child’s rights organizations in the Philippines lauded Terre des Homes (TDH), an international child rights organization, for gaining a headway in the battle against the serious problem of child pornography by creating “Sweetie”, a computer-generated image (CGI) patterned after a 10-year old Filipina girl, and being able to track down over a thousand child predators from more than 65 countries. Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns said TDH’s initiative is a positive step in the battle against the sexual exploitation of children. Hans Guyt, director of campaigns at TDH in the
VIRTUAL GIRL. Meet “Sweetie,” a computer-generated
10-year-old girl, created by children rights group Terre des Homme in the hope of arresting child predators. Photo credit: Terre de Homme
Netherlands, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle, a German online newspaper, they visited the Philippines a year and a half ago for their project against child prostitution. They
found out that children are being made to work inside internet shops. Guyt said these children are being forced by their parents. “We noticed that a lot of child prostitutes had
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just disappeared from view. They are now working from Internet cafes and that’s how we first got interested in this particular subject. We also found out that more children are actually exposed to this new phenomenon,” Guyt was quoted saying in the report. The TDH’s previous visit in the Philippines prompted the idea of creating “Sweetie.” With Sweetie, TDH said, online child predators could be easily tracked down. “With an innovative technology the virtual character Sweetie was created to be controlled by Terre des Hommes researchers. From a remote building in See CHILD/p.11
Noynoy, not God, was absent when Yolanda struck, says lawmaker By Tyrone A. Velez and Danilda L. Fusilero of Davao Today
DAVAO City––Criticisms continue to mount against the snail-paced delivery of relief goods and medicines to Typhoon Yolanda survivors in Eastern Visayas which was exposed in national and international television. A week has passed since Yolanda’s wind fury and storm surge left thousands dead and cities devastated; and failure in logistics prevented relief from reaching starving and dying survivors. As government appealed
to groups and individuals to refrain from playing the blame game, a worried nation and international community however, pointed at chaotic and obvious lack of crisis management for starving thousands of victims going into their first week of ordeal without adequate food, water and medicines. When President Benigno Aquino III appeared on international cable news and placed the blame on the local government for the chaos and non-delivery of relief goods, the nation pounced on the blame game that Malacañang started. See NOYNOY/p.11
CLAVERIA OATH TAKING. Misamis Oriental second districtRep. Juliette Uy with Mayor Redentor Salvaleon (in gray barong) and Vice Mayor Meraluna Salvaleon-Abrogar (in white pants beside the mayor) after the mass oath taking of recently elected barangay officials in Claveria, the province’s biggest town. Photo supplied
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