MANILA, Philippines – The head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Eastern Visayas expressed surprise over the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on the alleged proliferation of child labor in areas devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda last November.
Nestor Ramos, DSWD Field Office 8 director, said the department is always on the lookout against child labor and has not noted a “rampant” number of cases.
More than 6,000 persons died and more than four million others were displaced when Yolanda hit the Visayas region on Nov. 8, 2013.
The typhoon also damaged almost P90 billion worth of properties and affected about six million workers.
“We’re surprised over that because we haven’t seen that here in Eastern Visayas. Did they mean Eastern Visayas when they say Yolanda-hit areas?” Ramos told The STAR.
ILO said the devastation wrought by Yolanda last year resulted in a widespread child labor problem in the Visayas.
Based on an assessment of the Yolanda-affected municipalities in Western and Central Visayas, 54 percent of the 112 barangays in the two regions reported children involved in child labor or in harsh and dangerous employment, the ILO said. –Rainier Allan Ronda, The 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
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
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
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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