Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the “Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of the Philippines. This submission ...

UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, Mission to Philippines, A/HRC/8/3/Add.2, April 16, 2008, paras. 39 ...

April 10, Saturday -- Children's rights and other legal efforts to keep the young safe in an increasingly dangerous world will be examined during a daylong symposium at UC Davis. The "2004 Symposium ...

For Child Rights Network, the passage of Republic Act 11930 or the Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) Law “marks the dawn of safer online spaces for children.” ...

Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines on Thursday as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.