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Policy and Guidelines on Protecting Children in School from Abuse, Violence, Exploitation, Discrimination, Bullying and other forms of Abuse

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

DepEd Order No. 40, s.2012 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Policy and Guidelines on Protecting Children in School from Abuse, Violence, Exploitation, Discrimination, Bullying and other forms of Abuse Pls click for the PDF file DepEd Child Protection Policy_DO_s2012_040 Human Rights Online Philippines does not hold copyright over these materials. Author/s and original source/s of information are retained including the URL contained

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[In the news] Child rights activists ask Congress not to lower age of criminal responsibility -INQUIRER.net

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

Child rights activists ask Congress not to lower age of criminal responsibility. By Ryan D. Rosauro, Inquirer Mindanao February 3, 2013 OZAMIZ CITY, Philippines — Child protection advocates are making a last ditch call on lawmakers to preserve the country’s gains in advancing children’s rights by opposing moves to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility. “We appeal to our

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[Press Release] Thailand and Gabon first States to ratify new UN treaty giving children access to justice at the international level -Ratify OP3CRC

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

Thailand and Gabon first States to ratify new UN treaty giving children access to justice at the international level. Geneva/Manila, 26 September 2012 – Thailand and Gabon are the first countries to ratify the new international treaty on children’s rights, which allows children and their representatives to report rights violations to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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[People] More fun in the Philippines? by Fr. Shay Cullen

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

More fun in the Philippines? by Fr. Shay Cullen Sex tourism is a world wide reality and those who deny it are living far from reality. In the Philippines an estimated 60,000 commercially sexually exploited children are suffering abuse and lost childhoods according to a UNICEF estimate and millions more worldwide. There are stringent laws against it that are not

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[Press Release] Germany and Norway oppose amendment of the Juvenile Justice Law -CLRD

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

Germany and Norway oppose amendment of the Juvenile Justice Law “The Philippine government must ensure not to lower the age of criminal responsibility” referring to the children in conflict with the law. This was one of the statements of Germany during the Inter-active dialogue at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Philippines by the United Nations Human Rights Council

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[Announcement] Child Rights Coalition Asia (CRC Asia) and the UPR

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

Dear Everyone, Good day! I wish to share with you recent website articles concerning the UPR of the Philippines. “Philippines Human Rights record reviewed by the Human Rights Council” http://www.childrightscoalitionasia.org/philippines-human-rights-record-reviewed-by-human-rights-council “HR Council adopted UPR working group report on Philippines; Government accepted 53 recommendations” http://www.childrightscoalitionasia.org/hr-council-adopted-upr-working-group-report-on-philippines-government-accepted-53-recommendations Please feel free to share this with other colleagues and networks in the Philippines. Please take

[Press Release] CLRD launched its CARE center at Barangay Bagong Silang in Caloocan

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines One comment

On 25 August 2011, the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD), Inc. has launched its new program at Barangay Bagong Silang dubbed as “Children’s Action Resource Education” (CARE) Center. In partnership with DKA-Austria, the program will run for three years beginning this year.

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[In the web] They are Still Killing the Children – www.preda.org

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines 6 comments

by Fr. Shay Cullen It was a diabolical act of murder so foul, so vicious and merciless, that the good people in Zamboanga city are throwing up. They never saw anything as cruel and ghoulish like this. They are aghast, outraged, and shocked at the cruelty and blood lust of the killers. But surely they are determined, no doubt, to

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[Opinion] Human Rights and Tourism – preda.org

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines One comment

By: Father Shay Cullen (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times, in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Source: http://www.preda.org Berlin. The case of a 14 year-old child, call her Angel, who was sold by her parents to an Australian tourist at Baloy Beach, Olongapo city and made the child as his live-in sex toy

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Revillame treatment of dancing boy in tears criminal–CHR – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines Leave a comment

Revillame treatment of dancing boy in tears criminal–CHR – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos. Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 04:40:00 03/30/2011 Filed Under: Entertainment (general), Television, child abuse, Human Rights, Crime MANILA, Philippines—What the show “Willing Willie” did to Jan-Jan Suan, the 6-year-old boy who was told to simulate a striptease while in tears in exchange for cash in front