3 million child laborers toil in Philippines. Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - There are 3 million child laborers toiling in the Philippines and almost all of them are working in hazardous conditions, according to a survey financed by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The 2011 Survey on Children conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) and released on Tuesday showed that out of the 29.019 million Filipino children aged 5-17 years old, about 18.9 percent or 5.59 million, were already working. This is higher than the 4 million Filipino working children registered in a 2001 survey conducted by the ILO and the US Department of Labor. Of the 5.59 million children at work, 3.028 million were considered as child laborers and 2.993 million were reported to be exposed to hazardous child labor.
¿We¿re surprised by this ... ¿In carrying out this resolve, we will take it one barangay at a time. She also pointed out that the survey showed that 69.5 percent of child laborers, or 2.106 million, were attending school. Philippines short by 132,000 teachers. CEBU CITY – Changes in line with a longer basic education program, as well as familiar problems like a lack of rooms, await public school students as the new school year opens today, Monday.
All teachers handling Grade 1 and Grade 7 were trained under Oplan Balik Eskwela for the K-12 curriculum, a Department of Education (DepEd) official said. This week, their target is to train also the private school teachers, said Dr. Marcial Degamo, chief of the DepEd-Central Visayas quality assurance and accountability division. In Cebu City, another DepEd official said that instructional materials for Grade 1 and Grade 7 still have to be reproduced. The teachers finished their training just last Friday. These instructional materials won’t be ready in time for the opening of classes Monday. 21M nationwide The school population is estimated to increase by two percent. “We are really busy because of the mass training for Grade 1 teachers in connection with the K-12 curriculum,” Apao said. 48,000 classrooms.
Recommendations by UN will make real difference to Philippine victims of torture, IRCT says. IRCT in Geneva Torture in the Philippines was among the primary focuses of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the country’s Universal Periodic Review yesterday. More than 15 states focused on torture in their recommendations to improve human rights in the Philippines. These recommendations include: One of the main objectives of the second cycle of the UPR is to follow up to recommendations from the first UPR cycle; another objective is to ensure that recommendations are increasingly concrete and focused to promote implementation and facilitate monitoring and evaluation of these efforts. The IRCT would like to commend the governments of Denmark and Ireland for making clear, concrete and focused recommendations that are highly pertinent to the specific domestic context of the Philippines, and which, if accepted and implemented, will make a real difference for access to justice and rehabilitation for torture victims in the Philippines.
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