May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 Children’s rights advocates from the Child Rights Network (CRN) commended the members of the House Sub-committee on Correctional Reforms for retaining the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) at 15 years old. This was after the sub-committee approved the substitute bill to several bills seeking to amend the Juvenile Justice Act of […]
May 6, 2017
May 5, 2017 Children’s rights advocates from the Child Rights Network (CRN) reminded lawmakers on Friday to listen to the voice of the people and retain the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) at 15 years old. This call was made after the release of the results of Pulse Asia’s March 2017 Ulat ng Bayan […]
April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017 Members of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy, who is also a member of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) Standing Committee Member on Investing in Youth, and Rep. Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman, as well as National Advocacy Officer Janelle Rabe, actively participated […]
March 31, 2017
March 28, 2017 Advocates and stakeholders once again called on decisionmakers of the government, particularly the justices of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Philippines, to remove barriers to the full implementation of the Reproductive Health and Responsible Parenthood (RPRH) Law. This call was made during a national dialogue on reproductive health organized by the […]
March 22, 2017
March 20, 2017 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) joins the nation in mourning the loss of Leticia Ramos Shahani. Senator Shahani, or LRS, as we fondly address her, was PLCPD’s founding chairperson. She was a pioneering advocate of population and development and reproductive health in the country. Her involvement on these […]
March 9, 2017
March 9, 2017 Advocacy group Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD), one of the pro-reproductive health (RH) organizations that had pushed for the enactment of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law in Congress, implored the justices of Supreme Court to lift the temporary restraining order (TRO) it issued on public promotion, […]
March 2, 2017
March 2, 2017 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development condemns in the strongest terms the railroaded approval on 2nd Reading of the bill aiming to reimpose death penalty in the country. The successful movement of proposals to revive capital punishment in the legislative mill was not without a good deal of intimidation and […]
February 16, 2017
February 16, 2017 Children’s rights advocates vowed to intensify the campaign to oppose proposals in Congress to lower the current minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 15 to nine years old. In a press conference in Quezon City on Thursday, February 16, groups belonging to two large child-focused networks—Child Rights Network (CRN) and Philippine […]
February 9, 2017
CEBU City, February 2. Media practitioners, stakeholders from the academe, government, youth sector and child rights advocates in Cebu gathered in a media forum to oppose the measures in Congress to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and call for the strengthened implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (JJWA). With support […]
February 2, 2017
February 2, 2017 Together with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Tarbilang Foundation, and Pinay Kilos (PINK), the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) local advocacy team of Mr. Rio Magpayo and Ms. Maureen Bugatti paid courtesy visit to local government units and Integrated Provincial Health Offices (IPHOs) in the provinces of […]
