From the News! - Your Daily News » Child Labor http://fromthenews.net Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:10:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Protect women — CHR http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:35:02 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5264

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 of women.

The CHR said … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm/feed 1 Hazardous child labor http://fromthenews.net/hazardous-child-labor.htm http://fromthenews.net/hazardous-child-labor.htm#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:49:22 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3946 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 officer … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/hazardous-child-labor.htm/feed 0 Manila gang trains children to be thieves http://fromthenews.net/manila-gang-trains-children-to-be-thieves.htm http://fromthenews.net/manila-gang-trains-children-to-be-thieves.htm#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:16:47 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3857 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 children … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/manila-gang-trains-children-to-be-thieves.htm/feed 0 Myanmar recruits children for its military http://fromthenews.net/myanmar-recruits-children-for-its-military.htm http://fromthenews.net/myanmar-recruits-children-for-its-military.htm#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:10:46 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4023 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

]]> http://fromthenews.net/myanmar-recruits-children-for-its-military.htm/feed 0 Child labor diminishes us http://fromthenews.net/child-labor-diminishes-us.htm http://fromthenews.net/child-labor-diminishes-us.htm#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:13:05 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4000 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 to … Read the rest

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