Youth & Children

Suicide of 12-year-old girl moves pastor to paint, child worker to compose verses

"My Diary" by Pastor Jurie Jaime. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

The suicide of the 12-year-old girl has moved a pastor to paint; a child?s advocacy group volunteer to write verses, and government and civil society group to press the government for more attention to children?s rights. The night after he heard about the girl?s death from the television news, Pastor Jurie Jaime, of the United Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) in Tibungco, stayed up in his parsonage throughout the wee hours in the morning, crying and angrily splashing paint on his canvass.

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Ma-a National HS marks October as children’s month

Davao Teen Center, with the Ma-a National High School Supreme Student Government, celebrates the month of October as Children’s Month despite of the increase of children’s rights violation in the city, particularly the issue of Summary Execution and lacking of reproductive health services to children.
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Global campaign on violence against children set

CHILDREN?S CONGRESS

A Global Campaign on Violence Against Children with the theme: Worldwide Day of Action to End Violence Against Children and Corporal Punishment will commence on October 19 this year to remind all nations of its vow to protect and uphold the rights of the children regardless of age, sex, color, religion, ethnicity, race and status.
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Duterte wants child-protection law scrapped

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

Duterte said teenagers today are different from those in the past and, at 15, he believed a boy already has discernment. He also thought the Juvenile Justice Law, which says children below 15 cannot be held criminally liable, is open to abuse -- a lot of criminals could get away with crime because of this, he said. He called the law myopic and impractical.

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Davao’s child workers searching for ‘angels’

The Department of Labor and Employment said it invite companies, organizations and individuals who can become a ?donor, sponsor, friend, or a supporter? to provide services -- food, clothing, shelter, mentoring, livelihood, educational, medical assistance, work and training opportunities -- for Southern Mindanao's child laborers.

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