Davao Region, which ranked fifth, posted a rate on teenage fertility higher than the national average of 14 percent.
Barangays here were asked to help eliminate child labor in the city.
Under DOLE’s child labor prevention and elimination program, it has extended livelihood assistance worth P1.7 million in 2015 for 398 parents of identified child laborers.
A Manila-based child rights advocate raised a red flag on Friday, May 6 after a political advertisement aired on television networks with children being used for political mudslinging.
The city has started commemorating the National Children’s Month today highlighting the call to minimize all forms of abuse against children.
Indigenous peoples’ group Kusog saKatawha ng Lumad sa Mindanao (Kalumara n) continued its advocacy to defend and uphold the rights of the lumads, particularly the children, who have been long victim of abuses brought about by militarization in tribal areas.
Juvenile crimes here are on a decline and the city agency catering to the welfare of children ascribed it to the various social interventions.
Members of children’s rights organizations were allegedly harassed by state forces on Thursday night, a national alliance of children’s rights groups said.
Advocate groups for women and children are not agreeable to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s order of arrest of parents of three street children.
Classes were disrupted in a Davao del Norte indigenous peoples schools as its teachers were allegedly restricted by a fanatic paramilitary group.
