Topic: Children’s rights
We Can All Do Something to Save the Children
September 12, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
We Can All Do Something to Save the Children by: Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) It’s so encouraging to know that there are so many people working world-wide for the protection and well-being of children especially those […]
Read More...THE INSIDIOUS LAW THAT WILL HARM CHILDREN
September 10, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
THE INSIDIOUS LAW THAT WILL HARM CHILDREN by Fr. Shay Cullen Email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) To promote life and the well being of new born children, we have to take a stand to see that they have the […]
Read More...Guernsey medical report highlights child maltreatment
December 12, 2011 · , BBC News
Drink and drug problems have been highlighted as significant factors in the maltreatment of Guernsey children. The chief medical officer has reported that 64% of those placed on the child protection register have one or more parents with a drink or drug problem. Dr Stephen Bridgman made child maltreatment the theme of his annual report, […]
Read More...Serving Affluent Businessmen and Visitors
May 12, 2011 · , ECPAT international
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) With regard to China, the phenomenon of trafficking is a growing concern. In a UNICEFbacked situation analysis of children and women in China in 1992, it was noted that “occasional abduction of womenandchildrenhasbeenreported to still occur in some rural areas, prompting widespread education against”the practice […]
Read More...Laws Regarding Trafficking of Women and Children in China
May 12, 2011 · By Vitit Muntarbhorn, The Trafficking in Women and Children in the Mekong Sub-region
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) With regards to China, legal measures emanate from the 1991 decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress which called for action to criminalise the following: abduction for sale of women and children; kidnap of women and children, kidnap for purposes of blackmail; […]
Read More...Children Who Are the Victims of Trafficking
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) The most disadvantaged regions of the country, where poverty, unemployment, underemployment, landlessness and armed conflict combine to deny many children and their families the prospect of a secure future, are natural target areas for unscrupulous recruitment agencies. These agencies operate particularly in Samr-Leyte,Negros, Bicol, Cebu […]
Read More...Published in Child Workers of Asia
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) Internet ‘being used to prop paedophilia’ Agence France-presse The Nation, Wednessday, March 25, 1998 MANILA – The world’s police forces are floundering as transcontinental operators peddle impoverished third children via cyberspace in the fast global-trading environment, experts said yesterday. Groups are “subverting” the Internet to […]
Read More...Reply of undersec. Lourdes D. Balanon of the Department of Social Welfare and Development
May 11, 2011 ·
17 July 2003 ‘Rivendell’ High Street Shirrell Heath Southampton, SO32 2JN United Kingdom Dear undisclosed Recipient: We are in receipt of your letter dated 25 June 2003 bringing to our attention the situation of children and women in Olongapo Center for Assistance, Rehabilitation and Empowerment (OCARE). We do acknowledge the importance and urgency of your […]
Read More...Philippines Government reply to Urgent communication
May 11, 2011 ·
With reference to your letter of 18 July 2002 concerning alleged cases of arbitrary detention of four minors, the Philippine Mission wishes to submit the following information: Case of Manuel Flores (13) and Felix Cusipag (12) – For the record, manuel Flores is 13 years of age and not 10 as reported. He and felix […]
Read More...State Sponsored Violence against Children in Philippines
May 11, 2011 ·
State Sponsored Violence against Children in Philippines (as presented to the UN Committee on Human Rights) 1. INTRODUCTION The Philippines signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on December 19, 1966, but ratified it only on February 28, 1986. On October 23 of the same year, it submitted the instrument of ratification. […]
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