An independent commission appointed by L’Arche International has published a new report confirming that the founder of L’Arche, Jean Vanier, sexually exploited and abused women. The report provides evidence that the sexual exploitation of women was the primary motivation for Vanier’s founding of the organisation. Jean Vanier, who founded the organisation in 1964, has been Read more
A Church-sponsored international summit on how to protect children from online sexual exploitation is taking place in Rome this week. Discussion topics include how children and teenagers can be protected from sextortion, sexting, cyber-bullying, harassment and exploitation. The Vatican’s top diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is among those addressing the summit. His talk is entitled: “The Read more
An advocacy group has reported that hotel and resort chain Hilton Worldwide is to remove on-demand pornography from its hotel rooms. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation publicly thanked Hilton Worldwide for this. In 2012, Catholic law professor Robert George of Princeton teamed up with prominent Muslim intellectual Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in writing letters to Read more
New Zealand is a destination country for foreign men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, a US State Department report has claimed. The department’s 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report has also labelled New Zealand as a source country for children subjected to sex trafficking within the country. “A small number of girls Read more