Topic: Children’s rights
Comments on the reply of the Philippine Governments reply
May 11, 2011 ·
RE : FOUR MINORS IN DETENTION IN ANGELES DISTRICT JAIL MANUEL FLORES, FELIX CUSIPAG, HADJI SALIK CAMARODING, MICHAEL GUEVARRA Y GARCIA INTRODUCTION: Manuel Flores, Felix Cusipag, and Hadji Salik Camaroding, have all been released or transferred to the custody of juvenile centers since our initial communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on […]
Read More...US Congress to examine plight of jailed Pinoy street kids
May 11, 2011 ·
WASHINGTON – About 5,000 children, the majority of them innocent and some as young as eight are currently languishing in jails throughout the Philippines mixed together with hardened criminals and at grave risk of violence and sexual abuse, children’s rights advocate Fr. Shay Cullen said. An Irish Catholic priest who has worked as a missionary […]
Read More...'AKBAY' – Children and Youth Organization
May 9, 2011 ·
The Zambales-Olongapo Children and Youth Organization now called AKBAY was timely born on the second year of the Preda project. AKBAY is an acronym for “Aksyon ng Kabataan at mga Bata para sa Bayan”. In English: Children and Youth Action for the Nation. “AKBAY” literally means to put one’s arm over somebody’s shoulder in a […]
Read More...UNICEF opposes lowering of criminal age
October 22, 2008 · By Llanesca T. Panti, Reporter
By Llanesca T. Panti, Reporter The Manila Times, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 LOWERING the criminal liability age is not the solution to the problem of syndicates using children as their operatives, a United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) official said Tuesday. Lawyer Alberto Muyot of Unicef said the adults involved in syndicates using children should be […]
Read More...Home visits save kids from life of crime, study says
May 13, 2008 · By James Edwards, http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=88841
by James Edwards http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=88841 More funding is needed to assist the estimated 1,100 abused and neglected children who are at risk of growing up to be violent criminals, a group called Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois said Tuesday. It recommended an increase in home-visiting programs to assist 28,000 children in the state who are […]
Read More...Government contends with issues concerning minors in 2007
December 31, 2007 · By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor
By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor Monday, December 31, 2007 Children—those who haven’t reached the age of majority or not yet age 18—became major items in news reports in 2007, primarily because of reports of their suffering during the government’s anti-insurgency campaign in the countryside. They became the main participants in a children’s rally […]
Read More...Child Justice in Africa
May 11, 2007 ·
By Augustine Sam MESSENGER OF ST. ANTHONY – MAY 2007 For 350 million young people across sub-Saharan Africa subsisting amid poverty, diseases, orphan hood and a faltering juvenile justice system, running foul of the law seems to be the only way out. HUMAN RIGHTS is often an issue in Africa. And that appears to be […]
Read More...Champion of the Forgotten Children
October 2, 2006 · By Paul Ehrlich, Readers Digest
The cell in Manila’ Pasig City Jail was so crowded inmates had to take turns sleeping on the cement floor. There was little ventilation or sunlight. The only toilet overflowed, and some prisoners had skin disease or tuberculosis. The adult inmates were there for murder, rape, armed robbery and drug abuse. Also in the cell […]
Read More...Irish priest discovers child torture rooms
June 29, 2003 · By Lynne Kelleher, Sunday World
Women and kids beaten in home’s filthy secret cells A crusading Irish priest has exposed the filthy prison cells where homeless women and children are kept and tortured in the Philippines. And Columban priest, Fr. Shay Cullen, is now calling on Irish people all over Ireland to write letters of protest to the government of […]
Read More...Call to help women and children in secret cells
June 24, 2003 ·
Dear friends and defenders of human rights, June 26 is the day to remember the victims of torture and abuse of human rights. Earlier this year, a group of Swedish Red Cross students on a social-educational mission went to the women and child care center run by the Olongapo City government. By accident they stumbled […]
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