NDFP adopts program to protect children during armed conflict - Bulatlat

17.9.12

NDFP adopts program to protect children during armed conflict - Bulatlat: By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com

MANILA — The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) recently re-affirmed its commitment to defend the rights of Filipino children with a new program of action, while at the same time issuing a sharp criticism against what it said as the “bias” of international organizations and conventions that actually serve to endanger the members of the very sector they say they want to protect. It launched a book titled “NDFP Declaration and Program of Action for the Rights, Protection of Children,” at the office of the NDFP-Joint Secretariat of the Joint Monitoring Committee (JS-JMC) in Cubao.

The new book, which contains the new declaration on the NDFP’s program for children, also features a situationer on Filipino children, statements of support from NDFP units in the Cordillera, Bicol, North Eastern Mindanao and Mindanao regions, as well as appendices on complaints on human rights violations perpetrated against children and minors involving members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.