Topic: Children’s rights
Congress Urged to Pass Law Banning Kids from Smoking
June 9, 2000 ·
Published in “The Philippine Daily Inquirer” (June 09, 2000) ROXAS CITY-The Capiz – provincial board passed a resolution urging the House of Representatives to enact measures that would prohibit cigarette use among children as well as regulate the sale and promotion of tobacco products in the country. “Statistics showed that 40 percent of Filipino boys […]
Read More...Children may be at Risk from Mobile Phone Waves
May 27, 2000 ·
Published in TODAY (May 27, 2000) LONDON – Children should be discouraged from regular use of mobilephones, afar-reaching study commissioned by the British government said this week, while stressing that damage to health had not been proved. Young people already account for around a quarter of the more than 27 million mobile phone users in […]
Read More...News Photograph of some youth victims of the killings in Davao
July 13, 1999 · By Jowel Canuday, The Sunstar
DAVAO CITY – Children’s rights advocates here expressed alarm over several unresolved summary executions of teenagers and young adults suspected of theft and other petty crimes.
Data compiled by the tambaya Center, a private institution for abused children, showed that at least 13 children and young adults with ages ranging from 16 to 25 were summarily executed from February 1999 to October this year.
Read More...News Photograph of some youth victims of the killings in Davao
July 13, 1999 ·
The SUNSTAR July 13, 1999 13 Kids Summarily Executed DAVAO CITY – Children’s rights advocates here expressed alarm over several unresolved summary executions of teenagers and young adults suspected of theft and other petty crimes. Data compiled by the tambaya Center, a private institution for abused children, showed that at least 13 children and young […]
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER Christmas 1998
December 2, 1998 ·
What Makes a Happy Christmas? Everywhere you see huge signs of Merry Christmas, Santa’s and reindeers with bells and lights bringing good cheer and saying we should be happy. Perhaps we should, but why? If not for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and what he taught and did for us, the world would […]
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