Archive for September, 2008

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…

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…

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…

by Melnie Ragasa-Jimena
from People’s Tonight

THIRTEEN girls aged 13 to 15 and recruited in Quezon City ended up being sold as prostitutes at P600 each to fishermen in Infanta, Quezon.

The victims are out-of-school youths and residents of Batasan Hills, Quezon City.

Police…

from People’s Tonight

PRESIDENT  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has directed the Department of Education to step measures to end child labor and bring back these children to school.

“The role of children is to study, learn and play, not to earn a living at…