SunStar PLDT shuts down over 3K domains with links to online child abuse
SAFE INTERNET. With more children glued to the internet for online learning, the PLDT Group is advocating safe internet by blocking online materials that have inappropriate content. (SunStar file)
+ February 08, 2021 TO CONTINUE combating online child exploitation, telecommunication company PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), have strengthened their capabilities to block materials and domains linked to online child abuse.
With children spending more time on the web due to online learning, the PLDT Group, through its Cyber Security Operations Group, shut down 3,020 domains linked to online child abuse.
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“Far from dampening our ambition, however, the pandemic has sharpened our resolve to protect the four million girls and women who are at the risk of female gender mutilation each year,” they stated.
They said to end female mutilation there must be collaboration among stakeholders, which include global, regional, national and local policymakers, civil society, from small grassroots organisations and women’s rights groups, among others.
“This will require some $2.4 billion over the next decade, which breaks down to less than $100 per girl. This is a very small price to pay for preserving a girl’s bodily integrity, her health and right to say “no” to violation. However, most of this money has yet to be raised,” they stated.
February 5, 2021
Mohammed Huwais & Mohamed Hasni
SANAA (AFP) – Married at the age of 12, rejected at 16, and then disfigured in an acid attack, Al-Anoud Hussain Sheryan’s fate is a shocking illustration of abuse in a society beset by war and poverty.
Now aged 19, the Yemeni woman agreed to relate her ordeal at the hands of her abusive husband – rare testimony in a country where domestic violence is largely hidden.
“He grabbed me by the hair and poured the acid on me while laughing,” she told
AFP as she sat with her veil framing a face badly scarred by last October’s assault that also left deep wounds on her body.
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