Project targets worst forms of child labor Manila Bulletin Manila Bulletin – Saturday, July 17 * Send * IM Story * Print Reducing the worst forms of child labor in the country is the goal of a new project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the International Labor Organization-International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC). The new project, entitled Strengthening National Capacities to Support the Philippine Program Against Child Labor’s (PPACL)Vision of a Child Labor-Free Philippines, aims to contribute to the PPACL’s goal to reduce the incidence of the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) by as much as 75 percent. ”From 2005 to 2008, the Gender Statistics on Labor and Employment (GSLE) posted a 7 percent downward trend in the number of children 5-17 years old who are economically active. But while the GSLE generates data on working children, there still seems to be a dearth in data on children who are in the worst forms of child labor,” Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said. ”This concern of the Philippine Program Against Child Labor will now be responded to with the conduct of a special survey on children, a new project of the DoLE and the ILO-IPEC,” she added. The project will have four components – Knowledge Management; Effective Partnership; Area- Based Services in the provinces of Quezon, Masbate, Northern Samar and Bukidnon; and Sustainability. The four provinces were identified by the PPACL partners and the ILO-IPEC based on the same GSLE data which shows a concentration of working children in those areas.
July 17, 2010
xReducing the worst forms of child labor in the country is the goal of a new project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the International Labor Organization-International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC). Read more
Anti-child labor awards for teachers set
July 14, 2010
Davao City (14 July) — Seeing the role of teachers in encouraging kids attend school, a project in partnership with the Department of Education is set to identify commendable teachers who did well in eliminating child labor through education. Read more
Philip Morris is said to benefit from child labor
July 13, 2010
MOSCOW — One woman said children as young as 10 working in the fields developed red rashes on their stomachs and necks as they harvested tobacco for use in cigarettes made by Philip Morris. Read more
ILO takes keen interest in child labor in 4 provinces
July 9, 2010
TACLOBAN CITY—The International Labor Organization (ILO) is taking a close look at the plight of thousands of working children in four provinces in a continuing program to end child labor in the Philippines. Read more
Military accused of using minors to fight rebels
July 5, 2010
Zamboanga City: Communist rebels over the weekend accused the Armed Forces of the Philippinesof actively recruiting minors for military operations against the armed movement. The allegation was made after members of the New People’s Army (NPA) discovered that a prisoner they were currently holding is reportedly a 17-year-old member of the Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical Unit (Cafgu) of the Philippine Army. Read more
New admin called on to address child labor problem
June 12, 2010
A non-government organization has called on the new administration under President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to give full attention in stemming the rising number of child labor cases in the Philippines, as the country joins the celebration of the World Day Against Child Labor today. Read more
Child labor rampant in Manila
June 12, 2010
As many as 5 million Filipino children aged 5 to 17 are forced to work under dangerous conditions.
A non-government organization released the figure Friday to illustrate the point that child labor is rampant in the Philippines despite the law banning the use of minors as workers. Read more
Davao City ’still prone to child labor’
June 12, 2010
GOVERNMENT and non-government organizations monitoring incidents of child labor said Davao City and its neighboring provinces remain as their priority areas “because of the continued presence of factors that lead to child labor.” Read more
Putting a halt to child-sex tourism
June 12, 2010
DoT spearheads the Philippine leg of the Child Wise Tourism Program
Commercial sexual exploitation of children is the worst form of child labor. There are pimps coercing children into the sex trade, there are parents who, because of poverty, sell their children as sex-slaves. These awful crimes are openly taking place in hotels, resorts, and bars all around the Philippines –and we can do something about it. Read more
Editorial: A call against child labor
June 10, 2010
IT’S illegal but child labor remains to be an unsolved problem. Employing children who are less than 18 years of age in dangerous and life threatening activities is almost everywhere. Read more
