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Child rights violations under Aquino government increasing

Child rights violations under Aquino government increasing

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The month of October was declared as National Children’s Month, but still the rights of majority of Filipino children are being trampled upon due to poverty, lack of access to basic social services, and child labor, and the alarming increase in cases of rape, sexual assault, harassment, being made as human shields in military operations or paraded as ‘child soldiers,’ and killings.

Sidebar: Child rights groups slam military for attacks on children

Play

Play

While their middle-class counterparts twiddle with digital gadgets during play time, these boys get as much fun rolling a discarded wheel down a hill. Cans and stones inserted in the wheel ensure it remains upright. (Payatas Dumpsite, Quezon City) Photo by POM...

Spiral

Spiral

"Like a circle in a spiral / Like a wheel within a wheel" go the first lines of a popular song, which this Vatican Museum ramp obligingly mirrors. (Vatican City)

Economic realities bite

Economic realities bite

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com MANILA -- We don’t hear much about the state of the world economy these days. What we normally read are slightly optimistic projections and supposed signs of recovery. But we are being bombarded with political news: the Obama-Romney...

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