Feb 8, 2009
by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal
MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights… Read the rest
Mar 29, 2008
Ramon Mabutas Jr.
Manila Times
QUERY:
Last year, my thirteen-year-old daughter left for the capital-town of our province to look for work in order to pursue her studies. Because she was pretty she was hired as a guest relations… Read the rest
Mar 6, 2008
Nestor Etolle
Philippine Star
Children as young as seven years old are being trained and used by a pickpocket gang operating in Divisoria and Quiapo to escape arrest and prosecution, the Manila Police District said yesterday.
Policemen arrested two… Read the rest
Dec 7, 2007
Manila Times
NEW YORK: Children as young as 10 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, bought and sold by military recruiters desperate to swell their ranks, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday.
The junta, plagued by… Read the rest
Nov 26, 2007
Dennis Berino
Manila Times
Poverty has many faces. Hunger, out-of-school youth, illegal settlers. One of the most invidious however is making children work to help support their families.
It is the right of children to be nurtured, to go… Read the rest