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 […]
January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 This morning of 25 January 2017, members of the House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Correctional Reforms, representatives of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC), and proponents of the bills that seek to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (LMACR) from 15 to nine years old, will be having a closed-door […]
January 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) acknowledges President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order (EO) No. 12, with its thrust towards “attaining and sustaining zero unmet family planning need,” as a welcome and significant development in the continuing struggle for RH in the country. For PLCPD, the said order is a […]
January 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 Republic Act 9344 or the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act (JJWA), promulgated in 2006, is a significant legal safeguard for the dignity of the Filipino child. With this law, youth offenders–most of whom are from disadvantaged socioeconomic sectors–will not be submitted to the dehumanizing conditions in correctional institutions. JJWA likewise provides measures and […]
December 21, 2016
December 21, 2016 It is said that a law is only as good as its implementation. This is true for Republic Act No. 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law, a landmark legislation that institutionalizes a national policy for reproductive healthcare in the Philippines. The controversial bill finally saw the light of day […]
December 12, 2016
December 12, 2016 100 advocates of reproductive health in the Philippines celebrated the fourth anniversary of the enactment of Reproductive Health (RH Law) and called on the government to fully implement and fulfill the promise of the law. In a creative advocacy event held on December 7 at Microtel by Wyndham called “Apat na Taon, […]
December 7, 2016
December 1, 2016 Every year on this day, since 1988, the symbolic Red Ribbon binds together advocates across the globe to remember the lives lost to AIDS, as well as to renew the commitment to fight the spread of HIV. How this social scourge is most devastating among individuals at their prime holds true here […]
December 7, 2016
November 28, 2016 The Child Rights Network (CRN), through its convenor, the Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD), organized a series activities in celebration of Children’s Month with the theme “Bata sa Puso ng Batas” at the House of Representatives (HOR) on November 21-23. During the opening ceremonies on November 21, child rights […]
November 20, 2016
November 20, 2016 November 20 marks the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959, and the landmark Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. As such, November 20 is celebrated as Universal Children’s Day. It is a day for celebrating children […]
