Updates – Page 20 – Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development

PLCPD commits to fighting trafficking in persons and promoting rights of women, youth, and elderly in regional conference

April 3, 2017

April 3, 2017 Members of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy, who is also a member of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) Standing Committee Member on Investing in Youth, and Rep. Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman, as well as National Advocacy Officer Janelle Rabe, actively participated […]

Lift roadblocks to full implementation of the RPRH Law—advocates

March 31, 2017

March 28, 2017 Advocates and stakeholders once again called on decisionmakers of the government, particularly the justices of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Philippines, to remove barriers to the full implementation of the Reproductive Health and Responsible Parenthood (RPRH) Law. This call was made during a national dialogue on reproductive health organized by the […]

Tribute to Leticia Ramos Shahani, PLCPD’s founding chair

March 22, 2017

March 20, 2017 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) joins the nation in mourning the loss of Leticia Ramos Shahani. Senator Shahani, or LRS, as we fondly address her, was PLCPD’s founding chairperson. She was a pioneering advocate of population and development and reproductive health in the country. Her involvement on these […]

Supreme Court justices urged to lift TRO affecting family planning

March 9, 2017

March 9, 2017 Advocacy group Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD), one of the pro-reproductive health (RH) organizations that had pushed for the enactment of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law in Congress, implored the justices of Supreme Court to lift the temporary restraining order (TRO) it issued on public promotion, […]

PLCPD condemns the railroading of death penalty bill in the House of Representatives

March 2, 2017

March 2, 2017 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development condemns in the strongest terms the railroaded approval on 2nd Reading of the bill aiming to reimpose death penalty in the country. The successful movement of proposals to revive capital punishment in the legislative mill was not without a good deal of intimidation and […]

Groups decry bill lowering minimum age of criminal responsibility, call for sober discussion of the issue

February 16, 2017

February 16, 2017 Children’s rights advocates vowed to intensify the campaign to oppose proposals in Congress to lower the current minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 15 to nine years old. In a press conference in Quezon City on Thursday, February 16, groups belonging to two large child-focused networks—Child Rights Network (CRN) and Philippine […]

Stakeholders in Cebu oppose the lowering of minimum age of criminal responsibility

February 9, 2017

CEBU City, February 2. Media practitioners, stakeholders from the academe, government, youth sector and child rights advocates in Cebu gathered in a media forum to oppose the measures in Congress to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and call for the strengthened implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (JJWA). With support […]

ARCHES team pays courtesy calls to ARMM provinces

February 2, 2017

February 2, 2017 Together with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Tarbilang Foundation, and Pinay Kilos (PINK), the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) local advocacy team of Mr. Rio Magpayo and Ms. Maureen Bugatti paid courtesy visit to local government units and Integrated Provincial Health Offices (IPHOs) in the provinces of […]

PLCPD staff undergo training on DRRM planning and basic life support

February 1, 2017

February 2, 2017 Secretariat staff of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) underwent a training on disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) planning, contingency planning, as well as basic life support, first aid, and search and rescue as part of its two-day inception workshop in preparation for the implementation of an upcoming […]

Stakeholders in Cordillera say no to lowering minimum age of criminal responsibility

January 30, 2017

BAGUIO CITY, January 27. Children’s rights advocates and media practitioners in the Cordillera region gathered in back-to-back activities against the current moves in Congress to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and in support of calls to strengthen the implementation of Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (JJWA). After launching a campaign in Quezon […]