Posts Tagged RA 9208

MILF to stop recruiting child soldiers – UN special envoy

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…

NBI agents intercept suspected human trafficker; rescue seven, mostly minors

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…

Hazardous child labor

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…