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 ...

The safety of our children takes center stage on Thursday at a symposium in Orlando. Skip to content. NOWCAST WESH 2 News at 10 PM. Coming up Soon ... Child safety symposium held in Orlando ...

The Philippines has become the world's largest known source of online child sexual exploitation, with endemic poverty helping drive a surge in abuse, a report said Thursday.

(Manila, September 30, 2015) – The Philippine government is failing to protect children who dig and dive for gold in dangerous small-scale mines, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report ...

The publicity surrounding an 11-year-old communist rebel reported to have surrendered to the Philippines military this month has served as a harsh reminder of the work still to be done to rid the ...

The greatest shame of the Philippines is the fact that it is legal under the 1930 Penal Code for a 50-year-old man to have sex with a pre-pubescent 12-year-old child and get away with it if the man ...

Philippines bans child marriage: ... As per the Britain-based rights organization Plan International, the Philippines has the world’s 12th highest rate of child marriage.

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.

The new law, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, states child marriage is child abuse because ‘it debases, degrades, and demeans the intrinsic worth and dignity of children’.

Nine children, including some as young as two years old, have been rescued from alleged child exploitation in the Philippines after a tip-off from Australian Federal Police.