from GMANews.TV

MANILA, Philippines – A four-year school project for child workers will highlight the Philippines’ observance of this year’s World Day Against Child Labor (WDACL), the Labor Department said Thursday.

Labor secretary Marianito Roque said the government will implement the…

by TJ Agcaoili Correspondent
from The Business Mirror

AT least seven persons, most of them minors, were rescued by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from an alleged human-trafficking syndicate in an operation in North Harbor, Manila.

Roland Argabioso, chief of the NBI’s…

by Mayen Jaymalin
from The Philippine Star

Unlike many school children in various parts of the country, most children in Negros Occidental are not getting ready for the coming school opening next week.

For instead of going to school, a large number of…

by George Hubierna
from People’s Tonight

CAMP MACABULOS, Tarlac  — Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT) rescued four minors and rounded-up 12 guest relation officers from a prostitution den in Bgy. San Isidro, Tarlac City yesterday.

Supt. Nestor C. Babagay,…

by Agence France-Presse
from ABS-CBS News Online

MANILA – The Philippines has urged its removal from the UN’s list of countries with child soldiers, stressing that it condemns the practice by various rebel groups, the foreign department said Wednesday.

Hilario Davide, Manila’s envoy…

by Ramon Mabutas Jr.
from The Manila Times

QUERY:

Last year, my thirteen-year-old daughter left for the capital-town of our province to look for work in order to pursue her studies. Because she was pretty she was hired as a guest relations officer…

by Nestor Etolle
from The Philippine Star

Children as young as seven years old are being trained and used by a pickpocket gang operating in Divisoria and Quiapo to escape arrest and prosecution, the Manila Police District said yesterday.

Policemen arrested two children…

from The Manila Times

NEW YORK: Children as young as 10 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, bought and sold by military recruiters desperate to swell their ranks, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday.

The junta, plagued by…

by Dennis Berino
from The Manila Times

Poverty has many faces. Hunger, out-of-school youth, illegal settlers. One of the most invidious however is making children work to help support their families.

It is the right of children to be nurtured, to go to…