from The Manila Times
The Philippines’ main Muslim separatist group has agreed to stop recruiting child soldiers and return those in its ranks to civilian life, a United Nations official said Friday.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, revealed that during her talks with MILF leader Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF has [...]

from The Philippine Star
A ranking United Nations official said yesterday the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has committed to stop its practice of recruiting and using children in combat operations.
A statement from the Office of the Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process quoted visiting UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict [...]

by Alvin Murcia
from People’s Journal
THE United Nations and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will start next year their talks on an action plan to stop the recruitment of children as soldiers.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, revealed this yesterday during a press conference in Ortigas, Pasig City.
“The [...]

by Sandy Araneta
from The Philippine Star

The Manila City Prosecutor’s Office has filed criminal charges before the Manila Regional Trial Court yesterday against a 34-year-old woman for inducing female minors to solicit sex.
Lenylyn de Guzman, alias Mama Leny, of 274 San Sebastian St. Tondo, Manila, was charged with violation of Section 4 (a) in relation to [...]

by Carmela Fonbuena
from ABS-CBNNews.com/Newsbreak
Two bar operators in Daraga, Albay were sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for trafficking minors for sexual exploitation. One is the owner and the other is the cashier. They were also made to pay P1 million
each in fine.
This is the second conviction this year under the Republic Act 9208 or [...]

from The Manila Times
The massive dislocation of families due to the raging armed conflict in Mindanao has spurred the trafficking of children, Rep. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza of Cotabato warned Sunday.
“A growing number of young girls and boys whose families have been displaced by constant armed strife have become extremely vulnerable to trafficking by illegal job recruiters [...]

from The Manila Times
DHAKA: A group of Bangladeshi children who worked as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates will get more than $50,000 in compensation from the Gulf state, an official said Thursday.
The 29 children were among 200 repatriated three years ago when the UAE signed an agreement with the UN children’s fund Unicef [...]

from The Daily tribune
“Break the chain of abuse. Pass the Anti-Child Pornography Bill,” urged Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan after a study conducted by Talikala Foundation, a group helping prostituted women in Davao, revealed that a large number of prostituted women were once victims of child pornography. “The increase in the number of cases [...]

from The Philippine Star
Malacañang aims to bring before the United Nations the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) recruitment of children as fighters.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the government has photographs to show that the MILF is using children in combat.
The photographs were seized by troops from captured MILF camps, he added.
Ermita said the issue of [...]

from Anti-Slavery
Uzbekistan has banned child labour, ending the annual forced mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of school children to pick the cotton harvest.
The Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev signed a decree on Friday 12 September to implement two ratified international conventions against child labour. The ban follows pressure from human rights activists, socially conscious shareholders [...]