Child Labor

MANILA, Philippines- The national government on Tuesday announced that it will have reduced child labor by 75 percent in 2015, with the ambitious goal of making every barangay in the country child labor-free. During the launching of Batang Malaya program, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the Aquino administration is “very determined” to eliminate child labor…

MANILA, Philippines – After years of working in a sugar plantation in Negros Occidental, 100 young workers have abandoned their farm tools and trooped back to school.

THE head of the International Labor Organization (ILO) said there is “no room for complacency” in addressing child labor problems as 215 million children worldwide remain trapped in exploitative labor, most of whom children of migrant workers and those in the informal economy.

MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on the Aquino administration to implement stronger interventions in addressing child labor in the country, including stiffer penalties for private companies that employ minors in hazardous working conditions.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – The government underscored today its commitment to lower by 75 percent the worst forms of child labor in the country by 2015.

LEADERS of the Philippine sugar industry met with the American government officials at Washington, DC, USA on Tuesday to lobby for the retention of the country’s sugar quota with the favored US sugar market.

MANILA — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) spearheaded on Friday the simultaneous nationwide launching of its campaign for child labor-free barangays as part of the overall program for the prevention and progressive elimination of child labor in the country.

MANILA, Philippines—Sixty women, 19 of them minors, were rescued from prostitution by the National Bureau of Investigation in a raid on a Parañaque club at the start of the month.

MANILA, Philippines – The labor department’s regional office in the Caraga region has rescued some 30 children from log hauling operations in Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, through its Sagip Batang Manggagawa program.

(CNN) — Barefoot and covered in dirt and sweat, 14-year-old Dante Campilan pulls weeds from orderly rows of sugar cane. Wearing an oversized red cap to protect him from the scorching Philippine sun, Dante is doing work that should be reserved for men, not children.

‘Do more to crack down’ on child labor Agusan del Norte: Children in the village of Baleguian in the southern Philippines have to be strong to survive.

Malacaang is calling for the cooperation of local government units (LGUs) in stopping illegal child labor in some 80 barangays which have been identified by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, Philippines – Just before the break of dawn, Ricky (not his real name) started his day by packing up his pick, mullet and ore bucket.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino government will be working for the Philippines to be a “child-labor free” country this year, following reports that around 2.4 million children aged nine to 17 form part of the current workforce.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 2.4 million children with ages ranging from nine to 17 are “employed” across the country, a report from the International Labor Organization said.

TWO “child warriors” of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) have been captured by government troops following an encounter in a mountain barangay of Quezon province.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will work to eliminate child labor practices in at least 80 barangays (villages) this year.

FINLAND – Children throughout the world, including those in the Philippines, are recruited to kill, according to Richard Clarke, the newly appointed Secretary General of Child Soldiers International.

THE regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, has admitted that child labour is prevalent on sugarcane plantations in Bukidnon.

MANILA, Philippines – The Departrment of Labor and Employment has ordered its regional offices to transform 80 barangays nationwide into child labor-free zones within the year.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – The government is exerting all-out efforts in waging a campaign against child labor, a senior government official said today.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, March 7 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Director Johnson G. Cañete disclosed in a media interactive forum held on Monday at the DOLE-10 Regional Office that they recently launched the “Child Labor-Free Bukidnon” campaign as part of its child labor prevention and elimination drive.

The Department of Labor and Employment 6 recently rescued four Aetas, including a minor, employed as sacadas in an hacienda in Brgy. Purisima, Manapla, Negros Occidental, a press release from DOLE said.

ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) — The sugar planters in the Ormoc-Kananga Sugar District expressed their commitment to end child labor practice in the sugar industry.  

MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, Feb. 7 (PIA) – As a response to the reported high number of child laborers, provincial mayors and private corporations recently signed the Commitment of Intent with the International Labor Organization-International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) to address this issue on child labor.

FILIPINO children work in extremely hazardous fisheries. The most notorious and extremely dangerous of deep sea jobs is in muro-ami which employs children as swimmers and divers using nets to fish in reefs. Called reef hunters, they dive for fish or free snagged nets. The perception is that their smaller bodies are better for diving…

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/1 Dec) – The agriculture sector, specifically sugar and corn, are the top employers of child labor in the province, according to baseline survey commissioned for the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC), a program funded by the International Labor Organization.

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) rescued at least six Aeta children and filed charges of human trafficking and violation of anti-child labor law against the owner of a junk shop who recruited and allegedly maltreated the children.

RESULTS of a 2010 survey showed that about 1.9 million Filipino children aged 5 to 17, or 6.3% of the population in this age range, were working. More than a third of the working children belonged to the lowest per capita income bracket, according to the National Statistics Office report on the Annual Poverty Indicators…

Charges for large scale illegal recruitment and child abuse is set to be filed by the Department of Labor and Employment and the Bacolod City Police before the city prosecutor’s office today against the three persons nabbed Friday at the Banago wharf.