The House Committee on Women and Gender Equality has strongly endorsed for approval the bill making child marriages unlawful and penalizing persons, including parents, found guilty of facilitating or solemnizing illegal unions. Child marriage Authors of House Bill 9943 or the Anti-Child Marriage...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will request the extradition of the 61-year-old American diplomat who was indicted in the United States for having sex with a Filipino minor while posted in Manila if Philippine authorities could determine that the offense committed is “extraditable.”...
ASTRO (Twitter) K-pop boy band ASTRO’s new release “Switch On” grabbed first place on the weekly physical album chart. Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the rankings for the weekly album chart covering the period Aug. 2 to 8. ASTRO’s “Switch On” took first place, selling 275,145...
Two recent studies on online child pornography in the Philippines have confirmed online dangers facing Filipino children today, thus the studies recommended the formulation of a “National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related development framework to serve as guideposts for the...
Senator Richard Gordon on Monday, August 2, underscored the need for an urgent response to child sexual abuse and exploitation in the Philippines. Sen. Richard Gordon Stressing his point, Gordon said he would sponsor a bill defining the crime of statutory rape and other acts of sexual abuse from 12...
Driving Thoughts Pinky Concha Colmenares In the eighties, the image of a malnourished child in Negros Occidental woke the nation to the problem of severe malnutrition in the country. I think of that image today, as Nutrition Month comes to an end because I had covered many nutrition feeding...
The Department of Education (DepEd) earned praise from civil society groups for establishing a Child Protection Unit as the country faces the challenges brought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Social Watch Philippines (SWP), a hundred-strong network of civil society groups...
These 500 kids need you Child Protection Network (CPN), an NGO that first started in 1997, which has worked with experts on the prevention and treatment of child abuse, is raising funds to help support 500 abused children. For every ₱8,000 peso donation, one boy or girl will get access to a year...
A child died after he was hit and pinned by the same bus he threw stones at along EDSA in Quezon City Thursday morning. Citing information from witnesses, the Inter-Agency Council for Traffic or IACT said the incident happened around 8:30 a.m. along EDSA Carousel between the MRT Santolan and...
Stay healthy and worry less With the ongoing pandemic and COVID-19 still out there, there is no excuse for us to let our guard down as parents. Now, more than ever, we need to make sure our children are healthy and safe at home. From their daily dose of vitamins to healthy and nutritious snacks,...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday urged the Philippines to ensure that justice is served as it expressed deep concern over reports of two children caught in alleged government operations causing their “untimely and unjustifiable deaths”. UNICEF (via Twitter) “Ending...
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has denounced the New People's Army (NPA) for allegedly recruiting children in its armed struggle which often leads to the death of minors. media "Bilang isang ama, nalulungkot akong makitang humantong sa kamatayan ng mga bata ang pangyayaring ito. Ano man ang...
