Children

MANILA, Philippines – The United Nations said increasing economic and social disparities pose a threat to children’s rights and much needs to be done to safeguard millions of young people around the world.

More than 80 percent of the local government units (LGUs) in the country have set up their local councils for the protection of children (LCPC) that promotes children’s rights and implements child-centered programs at the local level, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

No to Violence – Department of Education is now getting serious at eliminating violence in schools, which include corporal punishment and bullying. MANILA, Philippines — he Department of Education will soon come out with a more comprehensive child protection policy to shield the child against abuse, exploitation and discrimination including bullying and other forms of…

CHICAGO – The annual number of children who die before they reach age five is shrinking, falling to 7.6 million global deaths in 2010 from more than 12 million in 1990, UNICEF and the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

SOME three years after the passaage of Republic Act 9775, or the Anti-Child Pornography Law, organizations devoted to curbing and raising awareness about child pornography remain convinced that such form of sexual exploitation of children remains prevalent in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has issued an executive order strengthening the legal protection provided by the government to victims of abuse through the Committee for the Special Protection of Children (CSPC).

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd has ordered stronger protection of children from abuse and violation of their rights. According to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., President Aquino signed on August 11 Executive Order (EO) 53, which seeks to boost the country’s child-welfare program and improve the government’s legal support for victims of child abuse.

MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill prohibiting parents, guardians, teachers and elders from subjecting a child to physical punishment and psychological threats.

Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has filed the proposed Special Protection of Children in Situations of Armed Conflict Act in the Senate which is aimed at providing comprehensive safeguard as well as the rehabilitation and reintegration of children involved in, affected by or displaced by armed conflict.

Manila, Philippines – The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) is set to approve new rules to strengthen protection for children appearing in broadcast media.

MANILA, Philippines – What would be the best motivation for five-year olds to go to school but toys? The ABS-CBN Foundation, in a bid to convince five-year olds all over the country to go to mandatory kindergarten school at the opening of classes in June, has pledged to gather 1.9 million toys to be donated…

SOCIAL Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman reported over the weekend that the department is currently implementing a program aimed at drastically reducing the number of street children by December 2011.

MANILA, Philippines — Children have rights and privileges guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every support must be extended to ensure their growth in an environment in which their rights and welfare are respected.

If there’s anything the reported Willie Revillame controversy did, it gave him international notoriety. Arriving from a trip to the United States and Canada, I could not believe how many Asian publications carried the story on the reported child abuse in Revillame’s TV program. What it actually did was to highlight the despicable number of…

MANILA, Philippines – Many children from Sarangani Province, Iloilo City, Surigao del Sur, and Batangas are never at peace. They recalled that the lullabies that put them to sleep are often gunshots.

MANILA, Philippines – Recognizing that child sexual abuse and exploitation are social realities in our country and constitute two of the most severe violations against the rights of children, Presidential Proclamation No. 731 issued February 5, 1996 has declared the second week of February every year as National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child…

MANILA, Philippines—A lawmaker on Tuesday sought to lower the minimum age of criminal liability of a child offender from 15 to 12 years of age, to deter them from taking part in organized criminal activities.

ALL that gloom and rain for days at  Fontana Leisure Park in Clark, Pampanga did not dampen the enthusiasm of child representatives from 10 countries who participated at the recent first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Children’s Forum.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino children continue to live in dangerous times under the Aquino presidency, human rights activists claimed Sunday.

MANILA—Italy, the United States, Greece, Belgium, and the United Kingdom top a list of two dozen rich countries that let their most vulnerable children fall even further behind, with enormous consequences not only for the kids themselves but for the economy and society at large, said a new United Nations report.

In a bid to keep children from caroling and begging in the streets as Christmas draws closer, the Department of Social Welfare and Development has offered P50,000 to any barangay (village) that succeed in this task.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino parents must learn to teach their children about body parts and their basic rights to prevent them from being abused, the Child Protection Unit (CPU) of the Philippines said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – A landmark document protecting and promoting the rights of children has turned 21 years old on November 20.

The Child Protection Unit (CPU) said the Philippines ranks 4th on the list of countries having a large number of prostituted children.

Child abuse in this country is now a problem staring us in the face. From child labor, to violence against children, to sexual abuse, trafficking, neglect and exploitation, we have them in spades. What is happening and why is it happening and how are we going to solve it involves a plethora of factors that…

Part I “We discovered that you can spend for the education. But if a child is abused at home, she cannot learn. There is money being put in education, but if 30% of children in each classroom are being abused, how will they learn? We must educate them to protect themselves and help those who…

The report a while ago about the Philippines being one of the lowest ranking countries on the index of Transparency International and tagged as “highly corrupt” should be no great surprise. Outspoken Bishop Joel Baylon of Legazpi and the diocesan clergy said in a strongly worded Pastoral Letter that “there has been an erosion of…

MANILA, Philippines – The Child Protection Unit-Philippines yesterday expressed concern over the high incidence of incest cases in the country.

THE large number of Filipino children living on the streets threatens the Philippines’ ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals, according to a joint study conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.

Popular culture has given us the more lasting portrayals of the “typical” bully—usually a boy, big and burly, from whom other kids generally stay away for fear of being harmed, taunted, or forced into submission into doing things against their will.