Groups seek hike of statutory rape age to 16
Children rights advocates ?are launch?ing? a campaign to ?raise to 16 years old the age of accountability in statutory ?rape cases.
Children rights advocates ?are launch?ing? a campaign to ?raise to 16 years old the age of accountability in statutory ?rape cases.
Despite Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s flip-flopping on the rescheduling of the peace talks, a ranking Roman Catholic official has remained optimistic that the government and the Communist rebels will still go back to the negotiating table.
A regional campaign by the Social Security System (SSS) that would eradicate illegal practices of business establishments was conducted here on Monday, July 16.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines has assailed the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte for spreading what it called as malicious insinuations by implicating the New People’s Army into the spate of killings of local officials in the country.
More than a thousand indigenous people from 15 rural villages in the municipalities of San Agustin, Tago, and Lianga, this province fled their homes on Monday, July 15, after a month of military encampment of their communities.