Posts Tagged RA 7610

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…

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…

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…

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…

by Mamer Bañez Butch Guino
from People’s Journal

ORANI, Bataan — Four persons, including a minor, were arrested by police authorities for allegedly operating a cybersex den Saturday.

Supt. Warren F. de Leon, chief of Bataan CIDG, said members of the Bataan CIDG…

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 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…