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…

from ABS-CBN News Online

The National Bureau of Investigation alerted the public on Sunday over the rampant smuggling of human organs in the Philippines. The NBI said smugglers are now targeting childen who are kidnapped and taken abroad where their organs…

by Ricky Tulipat at Lordeth Bonilla
from Pilipino Star Ngayon

Mga menor-de-edad pa lang sina Ma. Jennifer Abalos, 12;  Jevelyn Devara, 14;  at Gessa Clemente, 13, at halos magkapareho ang kanilang hangarin na makatulong sa kanilang mga magulang at makaahon sa kahirapan.

Nilisan…

by Fr. Shay Cullen
from The Manila Times

President Gloria Arroyo has the power, strength and ability to address one of the most serious challenges of her presidency—the significant curtailment of human trafficking and sex slavery in the Philippines.

Both can be shut…

from The Philippine Star

The recruiter of the 17-year-old housemaid and the girl Friday of former actress Princess Revilla were charged with physical injury, child labor and child abuse yesterday before the Pasig City prosecutor’s office.

Volunteer lawyers Yvonne Gaddi Festejo and…

by Jerico Javier
from People’s Tonight

THE lawyers of the 17-year-old housemaid who was beaten up by actress Princess Revilla, sister of Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla, included the recruiter and the actress’ girl Friday in the charged sheet.

This after volunteer lawyers Yvonne…

from The Philippine Star

Two out of 10 adolescents and their parents undergo a difficult phase in their lives, according to the Philippine Psychiatric Association (PPA).

In a media briefing dubbed as “Parenting the Adolescent: the Common Problems and Challenges Teeners Face…

from People’s Journal

ALTHOUGH a law prohibits the employment of persons below 15 years old, this poverty stricken nation of more than 90 million people is teeming with child workers.

Due to grinding poverty, which has been forcing more and more…