Rights advocates and child psychology experts pointed this out, underscoring the importance of ensuring and promoting children’s mental health amid the pandemic in the recent webinar organized by the Children’s Rehabilitation Center
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Article: Breastfeeding advocacy groups oppose amendments to Milk Code Sidebar: Dispelling false notions about breastfeeding MANILA – Breastmilk is not only healthy for mothers and babies, it is the most convenient and practical way to feed babies, especially during calamities. This is the testimony of Ritchel Diaz, mother…
By JANICE LEE MONTE-HERNANDEZ Bulatlat.com MANILA — “We are so happy. I never expected that I could be a radio anchor and I could speak over the radio. All of us come from poor communities and this is a big opportunity for us.” Salome Nanoz, 15, is a high school student from an urban poor…
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com For the third time, the Association for the Rights of Children in South East Asia (ARCSEA), an organization advocating for the rights of children here in Manila is sending young people from urban poor communities to perform in different cities in Tuscany, Italy for an annual event tagged as…
Main story: Court Orders Hospital Detention for Morong 43 Mom, Newborn By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA–Breastfeeding advocates and children’s rights NGOs found the court decision allowing the hospital detention of Morong 43 mother and her newborn to be wanting. Carina Judilyn Oliveros, one of the 43 health workers arrested on Feb. 6 in Morong,…