Youth & Children

Military to blame for children’s suffering in Central Mindanao

An interfaith mission deplores the government's all-out war in Central Mindanao for causing trauma and suffering among hundreds and thousands of children. The National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission (NIHM), which traveled…

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Women and children in conflict areas tell their stories in Ibon book

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today

Funded by the United Nations children's fund (Unicef), the Ibon book delves into the lives of women and children living in areas under the influence of the New People's Army (NPA) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), hence, the subject of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operations.

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Groups slam military for calling children killed in attacks as ‘child warriors’

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today

Ma. Esmeralda Macaspac, CRC executive director, said the statements made by Colonel Marlou Salazar, 601st brigade commander, were "irresponsible and cowardly." She pointed out that five of the six children who were killed were below ten years old, slamming the military's penchant for branding children that they have killed in their operations as "child warriors."

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Japanese-Filipino kids welcome new law on citizenship

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

The June 4 decision of the Japan Supreme Court will reverse the old law which only grants nationality to Japanese-Filipino children whose parents were married legally. The new law will include children whose parents are not legally married.

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