
How UNICEF Philippines is upholding children’s right to protection from abuse and trafficking Twelve-year old Caridad (not her real name) lives at a UNICEF-supported halfway house for abused and trafficked children in the Philippines. ...

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How UNICEF Philippines is supporting journalists in Mindanao with training on ethical reporting and children’s rights On Monday 23 November, as journalists from across Mindanao gathered for a UNICEF-supported media training course in Palawan, at least twelve of their colleagues were shot d...

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has signed into law a bill making child pornography illegal, in a major victory for UNICEF and other child rights advocates...

How UNICEF Philippines is upholding children’s right to be healthy by supporting breastfeeding mothers Seven breastfeeding mothers sit in a circle outside a rural health centre in Vinzons, Camarines Norte province. ...

How UNICEF Philippines is helping to protect street children's right to an education in Manila. Mary, 12, lives and works with her family on the streets of Manila. She helps her mother sell cigarettes outside Starbucks in Binondo (Chinatown) and looks after her younger brothers and sisters...

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In 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) became the first legally binding i...nternational convention to affirm human rights for all children. As a binding treaty of international law, it codifies principles that Member States of the United Nations agreed to be universal – for all children, in all countries and cultures, at all times and without exception, simply through the fact of their being born into the human family.

How UNICEF Philippines is upholding children’s right to an education through the Child Friendly Schools System In a secret ballot six months ago, Krista Angeli Delica, 16, was elected President of the student government at Jose Panganiban National High School, in the province of Camarines Norte. ...


















