Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the “Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of the Philippines. This submission highlights ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. (Zamboanga City, Philippines) – Children fleeing the Zamboanga armed conflict in the Philippines ...

On Monday August 22, the Marcos government in the Philippines re-opened schools for in-person education, herding over 27 million children back into dilapidated and unsafe public schools nationwide ...

The Philippine Senate has finally approved the final draft of a law that is vital to the protection of children and the prosecution of child rapists who were committing the crime with impunity. The ...

TAGKAWAYAN, Philippines, Feb 23 (Reuters) - A brightly decorated wooden trolley rumbles down a little-used rail track in the southern Philippines carrying four young teachers, two on the front and two ...

MANILA, (May 10, 2024) – A protracted drought across large swathes of the Philippines is impacting over 900,000 families [1] – or over 3.7 million people - including some who have taken their children ...