WASHINGTON – US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Monday announced a grant of $15 million for a project to combat exploitative child labor in sugarcane growing areas in the Philippines.
The grant was awarded to World Vision to – among other things – increase children’s access to quality education and promote sustainable livelihoods for children’s households. It is estimated that four million Filipino children aged 5-17 are working in hazardous or inhumane conditions in agriculture, mining, and fishing industries and many more are sexually exploited.
“The Philippine government welcomes the innovative initiative of the US government, through the Department of Labor, in fighting exploitative child labor, in terms of programmatic interventions and policy recommendations,” Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Cuisia Jr. said.
Cuisia attended the formal launching of the grant. Also present was Senator Tom Harkin, a champion of child labor issues in the US Congress.
Cuisia said the grant complements the social development framework of the Philippine Development Plan for 2011-2016.
An earlier $5.5-million grant to World Vision-Philippines from the US labor department was instrumental in rescuing 61,000 Filipino children from oppressive labor conditions. The grant was for a four-year anti-child labor project, which ended last month. – Pia Lee Brago, Jose Katigbak The STAR Washington Bureau (The Philippine Star)
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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
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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
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
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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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