Child Labor

MANILA (Mindanao Examiner) – Child Soldiers International and Human Rights Watch urged the Senate of the Philippines to remove a provision in a draft law that allows for the prosecution of the parents of children recruited to be soldiers.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) – the UN agency specialising in the world of work – launches ArtWorks, an artist engagement programme to raise awareness of fundamental rights at work, including freedom from slavery and from child labour.

workers the Philippines plantations palm oil children Child labor is all too common on palm oil plantations in the Philippines, as a study by the Manila-based Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) found. The study looked at palm oil plantations in the Caraga region of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines and…

BAGUIO CITY—Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Friday launched in Sagada, Mt. Province, an antichild labor crusade among upland farming communities as the government pushes programs aimed at reducing child labor in the Philippines before 2015.

BUKIDNON, Philippines – The child labor issue in this province is being aggressively addressed, thanks to a new code that was recently formulated.

MANILA, Philippines- Foreign palm oil plantations in the Philippines are accused of employing and exploiting child laborers. The Manila based Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTHUR) last presented to the public the findings of its research on child labor in oil palm plantations in Caraga which revealed that 24% of workers in the…

LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Oct 3 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has announced that President Aquino instructed several national line agencies to intensify the campaign on child labor-free barangay.

MANILA, Philippines – Eighty barangays nationwide will be made child labor-free zones this year, Malacañang said yesterday. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the Department of Labor and Employment aims to reduce the nearly three million Filipino children engaged in dangerous labor.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Almost three million Filipino children are engaged in dangerous labor, the National Statistics Office (NSO) bared in its recent survey on children. Two-thirds of those children into hazardous labor were boys. Central Luzon (10.6 percent) and Bicol (10.2 percent) registered the highest percentage, while CAR (2.3 percent) had the least percentage.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Almost 3 million Filipino children are into dangerous labor, the National Statistics Office bared in its recent survey on children. About 5.49 million Filipino children aged five to 17 years have already experienced work in their life, the state agency noted.

ALCALA, Pangasinan, Sept 6 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment launched here Monday the Child-Labor Free Barangays, which aims to protect the welfare of children and eliminate child labor in the tobacco industry.

ISABELA CITY, Basilan, Aug 22 (PIA) — Fifteen child laborers in this city recently exchanged their work implements with educational package as part of the Department of Labor’s (DOLE) campaign for a child-labor free barangay.

MANILA, Philippines—Labor officials rescued three child laborers from a construction site in Negros Occidental recently. In a report to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, DOLE Region 6 Director Ponciano Ligutom Jr. said the minors, aged 16-17 years old, were found working at an excavation site along the highway at Brgy. Calumangan, Bago City.

MANILA, Philippines—After years working on sugarcane farms in Iloilo, several child laborers are going back to school. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the government has provided 52 parents in San Enrique, Iloilo, with almost P400,000 in livelihood grants so they won’t have to send their children to work in sugar fields anymore.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Large-scale mining operations are the only way to solve the alarming child labor problems in illegal small-scale mining activities in the country, according to the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Philippines during a gathering of business groups held here last week.

ABOUT 100 delegates from the government sector, non-government organizations and sugar industry stakeholders gather Thursday at the L ‘Fisher Hotel in Bacolod City to address the issue of child labor in the sugar industry.

A concerted government and private sector effort is needed to put a stop to child labor in Western Visayas, which has the third highest number in the Philippines, a Department of Interior and Local Government official said yesterday.

A total of 600 child combatants, some as young as eight years old, were monitored in the ranks of various anti-government forces in 2011, the United Nations (UN) reported.

CANDON CITY, Ilocos Norte/PIAT, Cagayan — The campaign for child labor-free barangays stepped up a gear, particularly in northern Luzon, with support from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and national leaders that have anchored on the theme, “Pagtutulungan, Pagpapalaya sa mga Batang Manggagawa (Cooperation in Freeing Children from Hard Labor).”

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – Pupils in villages near a gold-rich mountain in Maitum, Sarangani, skip classes on Fridays to attend to what they deem is a more important task – hauling soil and stones from mine tunnels.

MANILA, Philippines – The rising incidence of child labor in the country was not only due to poor enforcement of labor laws but also caused by the failure to enact the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said yesterday.

The rise in the number of children at work could be traced to the absence of a Reproductive Health (RH) law in the Philippines, a senior member of the House of Representatives said on Friday.

DISTURBING and worrisome is how the government should look at the findings of the survey financed by the International Labor Organization (ILO) showing that there are 5.59 million child laborers in the Philippines, with most of them working in hazardous conditions.

Manila, Philippines – Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada has expressed alarm that children between five and 17 are already working. The Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development chairman is concerned over the National Statistics Office (NSO) 2011 survey showing working Filipino children aged 5 to 17 now number 5.59 million.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has identified the initial 80 barangays in the country’s 16 regions that it plans to declare child labor-free this year with the help of other government agencies and private sector partners.

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada on Thursday likened child labor to modern day slavery and urged the Department of Labor and Employment and the Philippine National Police to shut down companies who employ child workers for hazardous work.

A June 28, 2012 press release from the Department of Labor and Employment Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday identified the initial 80 barangays in the country’s 16 regions that the DOLE is working with, in convergence with other government agencies and private sector partners, to declare child-labor free barangays this year.

Some three million children in the Philippines, aged 5 to 17, are exposed to dangerous work environments, a survey of the National Statistics Office said. The results of the October 2011 Survey on Children were released Tuesday at the launching of “Batang Malaya,” a nationwide campaign to fight child labor.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of child workers in the country has increased, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday. “As of October 2011, there are 5.49 million working children aged five to 17 years. More than 55.1 percent or 3.02 million were counted as child labor while 2.99 million are exposed to…

MANILA – Over the past decade, the incidence of child labor in the Philippines increased by almost 30 percent from 4.2 million in 2001 to 5.5 million last year, the 2011 Survey on Children of the National Statistics Office (NSO) indicate, alarming both the Federation of Free Workers (FFW) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).