Life is not sweet for workers at a sugar estate owned by the family of Philippines' President Benigno Aquino III, a visiting church group has found.

Fr Shay Cullen has led a rally of men, women and children in the Philippines. They called on the authorities to deliver justice for victims of sexual abuse.

For people in the Philippines and elsewhere, Fairtrade is more than buying and selling products at fair prices, says Shay Cullen. It is working for the enhancement of human dignity, protecting vulnerable and exploited people. It is a matter of life and death.

President-elect Senator Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III has excited hopes of reform and political integrity in the Philippines, says Fr Shay Cullen. But internationally-sanctioned legal action is still to stamp out repression, human rights abuses and assassinations in the country.