By MARYA SALAMAT
The Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) had documented six cases of frustrated killings, four victims of torture, two illegal arrest and detention, two victims of rape and 136 children affected by forcible evacuation during Aquino’s first five months in office. In all these cases witnesses tagged state military forces as the perpetrators.
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com For the third time, the Association for the Rights of Children in South East Asia (ARCSEA), an organization advocating for the rights of children here in Manila is sending young people from urban poor communities to perform in different cities in Tuscany, Italy for an annual event tagged as…
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Mary Jane Sollano, then 13, Aljane Bacanto who was then 16, and Gina Renecia who was then 15, were recruited to work as household helpers. What followed were years of abuse – of being hit with wood, iron bars and chains, heads slammed on walls, being made to endure hunger – for the slightest of reasons.
At first glance, they looked like ordinary children. But deep within them are scarred souls and lost innocence because they are children-victims of human rights violations. On December 9, they went to see the United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy to tell her their tragic stories.
BY BULATLAT On the occasion of National Children’s Day, a network of child rights advocates said the government, including its military forces, remains the ‘primary violator of children’s rights.’ The Philippine government signed the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child on July 1990, and thereafter, signed Proclamation 74 declaring October 17 as…