Malacañang aims to bring before the United Nations the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) recruitment of children as fighters.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the government has photographs to show that the MILF is using children in combat.
The photographs were seized by troops from captured MILF camps, he added.
Ermita said the issue of combatant children is based on international treaties on the protection of children in armed conflict.
Data against the MILF and New People’s Army (NPA) are being gathered for presentation before the UN, he added.
Ermita said by raising the issue of combatant children at the UN, members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) would be informed of the MILF’s illegal action.
The OIC could then send emissaries to compel the MILF to stop using children in combat, he added.
Soldiers have confirmed that they have encountered children fighting for the MILF and NPA.
Troops would have to defend themselves when facing a combatant, regardless of his or her age, he added.
However, unarmed children found in a combat zone are turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Ermita said. – Marvin Sy, Philippine Star
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
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Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
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Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
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Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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