Youth & Children

Davao Media, Others Violate Guidelines on Reporting on Children: Unicef

MANILA ? In a bid to create a more child-sensitive media environment, the United Nations Children?s Fund (Unicef) commissioned research studies that verified Philippine media?s adherence to the guidelines promulgated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 1999.

The studies, which covered print and television in Metro Manila, Cebu City and Davao City, uncovered that the media guidelines are being violated. The Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) conducted the research.

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Security Guards To Be Trained as Child Protectors

DAVAO CITY — Private security guards, especially those assigned to secure business establishments, will soon carry the additional task as child protectors after undergoing a training on handling children in conflict with law.

The Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of? Children (RSCWC) in Southern Mindanao is? bringing security agencies into its fold as child advocates and protectors, in a memorandum of agreement signed on Wednesday.

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