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Tag: child rights

  • Categories News Top Stories

    Number of Filipino working children reaches 5.5 million, NSO survey shows

    Jul 05, 2012 8:11 PM

    By ARIEL C. SEBELLINO

    SEVENTEEN-year-old B-Jay has not attended school for the last two years. Instead, B-Jay helps his father David in occasional carpentry works in some subdivisions in Cavite to augment the family’s income.

    Child Labor, child rights, ILO

  • Categories News Top Stories

    TV networks urged to produce child-friendly shows

    Jun 20, 2012 7:30 PM

    By ARIEL C. SEBELLINO

    MARICEL Oriña, a self-employed housewife and mother of two boys, can only sigh in exasperation over the lack of sensitivity on how children are portrayed on television.

    child rights, National Council for Children's Television

  • Categories Top Stories

    Civil society, international community against changes to juvenile justice law

    Jun 14, 2012 12:53 AM

    By CARLO FIGUEROA

    HUMAN rights groups continue to voice their opposition to moves to amend the country’s juvenile justice law.
    This comes even after the House of Representatives on June 4 passed on third and final reading House Bill 6052 proposing to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 to 12 years old.

    child in conflict with the law, child rights, Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, Republic Act 9344

  • Categories Top Stories

    Move to lower age of criminal liability faces stiff opposition

    Oct 19, 2011 8:35 PM

    N0 one would think that 17-year-old Ariel Bowagan was a child offender before he became the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK)chairman of Barangay Dontogan in Baguio City.

    child in conflict with the law, child rights

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Lack of child protection in PH decried

    Aug 25, 2011 11:17 PM

    IF numbers is a reflection of love, the Philippines should be a nation that loves children.

    There are more than 31 million Filipino children, comprising 31percent of the country’s total population of over 101 million. But many of these children suffer violation of their rights.

    child rights

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    ASEAN kids call on governments to uphold child’s rights

    Dec 17, 2010 1:10 AM

    ALL that gloom and rain for days at Fontana Leisure Park in Clark, Pampanga did not dampen the enthusiasm of child representatives from 10 countries who participated at the recent first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Children’s Forum.

    child rights

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Bless the children

    Oct 03, 2010 7:40 AM

    THERE was one scene in the recently concluded television soap opera Momay that belittled children studying in public schools: Character actress Glydel Mercado, playing the role of a mother, told her nephew, “O ikaw Jay-jay, sa public school ka nalang mag-aral kasi bobo ka naman (You, Jay-jay, will go to public school because you’re dumb).”

    child rights, violence against children

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