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Feb 8, 20091

Protect women — CHR

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, 20080

Hazardous child labor

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, 20080

Manila gang trains children to be thieves

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, 20070

Myanmar recruits children for its military

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, 20070

Child labor diminishes us

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

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