[22 MAY 2012] - The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) has slammed legislative proposals to reduce the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
JJWC, which oversees the implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, otherwise...
[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: La décision de rouvrir les écoles dans le Mindanao du nord, dévasté par les inondations, est vue comme un élément clé dans le rétablissement de la normalité, malgré les énormes défis auxquels le pays reste confronté. [Le 11 janvier 2012] -...
Summary: La tempête tropicale qui a fait plus de 650 morts et plusieurs centaines de disparus aux Philippines les 17 et 18 décembre – en particulier sur l’île de Mindanao, dans le sud du pays – a pris les autorités par surprise.[Le 20 dé...
Summary: According to the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), 652 people were killed in eight provinces in the southern Mindanao region, and more than 800 are missing. [CAGAYAN DE ORO, 18 December 2011] — Dexter Lacson has run out of...
Summary: Information about institutions in Philippines that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
Seated within the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP), the Child Rights Centre functions as an Ombudsperson in the country...
Summary: The Philippine armed forces should end its unlawful use of schools for military purposes, Human Rights Watch said today.[30 November 2011] - During a recent eight-day investigation in the Cordillera Autonomous Region on northern Luzon...
Summary: General overview of the Philippines' national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.
National laws on children's rights
Status of CRC in national lawThe Convention is not...
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