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
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
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)
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
