Child Labor

Twelve thousand five hundred twenty-six (12,526) child laborers were benefited from Angel Tree Project (ATP) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) that granted their wishes for food, clothing, schooling and other forms of assistance, said DoLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.

MANILA, Philippines—More than 150 minors, mostly from the indigenous community of Mandaya in Davao Oriental, are involved in dangerous mining work in Compostela Valley, the Department of Labor and Employment said.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said that their Regional office in Davao (Region 11) has formulated an action plan which aims to eliminate child labor problem in the mines of Maragusan, Compostela Valley.

Labor officials in Mindanao have drawn up an action plan to eliminate child labor – particularly the use of children in mining activities – there. According to Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 11 office’s plan focuses on the mines of Maragusan in Compostela Valley province.

MANILA, Philippines – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday directed the police to file charges possible against a woman who allegedly physically abused her 17-year-old maid, whose body bore bruises, welts, and bite marks. Lim said he was shocked when he visited the victim in her room at the Jose Abad Santos Mother and Child Hospital…

VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/18 September) — One of five children between the ages five and 14 or 67,000 children in Bukidnon are considered by the International Labor Organization as child laborers, according to Jesus Macasil, a Manila-based ILO senior programme officer.

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WASHINGTON—No child should have to choose between putting food on the table and getting a proper education, actress Eva Longoria said Wednesday calling for more rights for the youngest US farm workers.

LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 31 – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is reactivating its anti-child labor action team in Camarines Norte, an area in Bicol once considered by the International Labor Organization (ILO) as a province in the Philippines with high incidence of Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL).

KIDAPAWAN CITY — A “child combatant” has surrendered to a village chief in Magpet town in Cotabato province after the boy was allegedly abandoned by members of the Black Fighters, believed to be a breakaway group of the New Peoples’ Army in the province.

At least seven girls, three of them minors, were rescued from forced labor at a bar in Palawan province following a raid there over the weekend.

A Delhi court on Saturday directed a man accused of employing seven minor children as bonded labourers to deposit Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 50,000 per child) with the Child Welfare Committee for their rehabilitation, while granting him bail.

TACLOBAN CITY – Concentration of working children in Northern Samar are in the abaca, coconut, transportation and quarrying industries in the province.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Western Mindanao is now on alert as they are monitoring all entry points in the region to prevent recruitment and trafficking of young workers there.

MANILA, July 30 – Army authorities condemned the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army’s (CPP-NPA) use of human shields in a clash with government forces in Lupi town in Camarines Sur on Thursday afternoon.

TACLOBAN CITY—The International Labor Organization (ILO-Manila)is coordinating with the labor department in the region in its bid to address child labor problem in this part of the country.

The regional director of the Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday expressed fears that children are being used as child laborers in gold-rich areas in Compostela Valley Province.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines and the International Labor Organization are teaming up anew in a new project that seeks to reduce the worst forms of child labor by as much as 75 percent, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz said over the weekend.

Reducing the worst forms of child labor in the country is the goal of a new project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the International Labor Organization-International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC).

Davao City (14 July) — Seeing the role of teachers in encouraging kids attend school, a project in partnership with the Department of Education is set to identify commendable teachers who did well in eliminating child labor through education.

MOSCOW — One woman said children as young as 10 working in the fields developed red rashes on their stomachs and necks as they harvested tobacco for use in cigarettes made by Philip Morris.

TACLOBAN CITY—The International Labor Organization (ILO) is taking a close look at the plight of thousands of working children in four provinces in a continuing program to end child labor in the Philippines.

Zamboanga City: Communist rebels over the weekend accused the Armed Forces of the Philippinesof actively recruiting minors for military operations against the armed movement. The allegation was made after members of the New People’s Army (NPA) discovered that a prisoner they were currently holding is reportedly a 17-year-old member of the Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical…

A non-government organization has called on the new administration under President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to give full attention in stemming the rising number of child labor cases in the Philippines, as the country joins the celebration of the World Day Against Child Labor today.

As many as 5 million Filipino children aged 5 to 17 are forced to work under dangerous conditions. A non-government organization released the figure Friday to illustrate the point that child labor is rampant in the Philippines despite the law banning the use of minors as workers.

GOVERNMENT and non-government organizations monitoring incidents of child labor said Davao City and its neighboring provinces remain as their priority areas “because of the continued presence of factors that lead to child labor.”

DoT spearheads the Philippine leg of the Child Wise Tourism Program Commercial sexual exploitation of children is the worst form of child labor. There are pimps coercing children into the sex trade, there are parents who, because of poverty, sell their children as sex-slaves. These awful crimes are openly taking place in hotels, resorts, and…

IT’S illegal but child labor remains to be an unsolved problem. Employing children who are less than 18 years of age in dangerous and life threatening activities is almost everywhere.

Over one million children are victims of commercial sexual exploitation around the world each year. The growing ease of travel, which has lured child-sex predators into less developed countries including the Philippines, has made children more vulnerable to this modern form of slavery.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole)-Central Luzon is all set for the annual celebration of World Day Against Child Labor on June 11.