Filipinos are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate emergency. They are, however, also leading the fight to attain climate justice and solutions.
The good news is that Filipinos are awaiting the Resolution to a four-year National Inquiry on Climate Change (NICC), triggered by a Petition filed at the
They all seek CHR to conduct investigation on how the world's investor-owned fossil fuel companies significantly contributed to climate change and its human rights impacts. According to a Greenpeace report, this is significant for two reasons.
First, it is "a first-of-its-kind effort investigating the responsibility of fossil fuel companies for human rights violations stemming from climate change. Among the tasks in the Petition are finding companies' responsibility, recommending that policymakers develop and adopt clear and implementable objective standards for corporate reporting of human rights issues in relation to the environment, as well as monitoring vulnerable communities to the impacts of climate change.
"Second, some of the Petitioners and resource persons for this effort are typhoon survivors and representatives from vulnerable populations. These brave Filipinos are using their experiences and stories to call on major companies to relax their "business-as-usual" stance and to consider the welfare of communities.
CHR is expected to release the Resolution before the year ends in time for theInternational Human Rights Day and United Nations Climate Change Conference inMadrid . Last Nov.
8 to 10, a group of media practitioners went to Panglao island in Bohol for a weekend respite and to write about the various developments in that province especially about its booming tourism industry. They were received well by the management and officials of the Bohol sites that they visited
This particular trip was so blissful and relaxing, thanks to the hospitality and forward-looking preparations of
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"While seated for almost one hour in this succeeding flight, Diego Cagahastian on Seat No. 4 was even challenged to producehis boarding pass which he did, presumably because there is another passenger with the same seat number.
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" Calling, callingAir Asia management. It's an impossible task stopping teenaged girls from getting pregnant.
First thing is that they are too young to be married lawfully. But the itch to get hitched is extremely strong.
My househelp's family has multiple teen marriages. Starting with her, the mother herself got pregnant at age 17, her daughter at 16, and her granddaughter at 12, all three pregnancies occurring outside of marriage.
Why was this so, I asked the mother. "It's fate," she told me.
She also had three husbands, her daughter also three, and the granddaughter has just entered into a second relationship at age 14. I've heard of many impregnations taking place in shacks where the families sleep in cramp spaces, resulting in incest and pregnancies. So, is it poverty that is the cause of such ill relationships? Not just poverty, reports the
" POPCOM issued the statement after news articles pointed to moral decadence as the reason for the rise in the numbers of girls who have begun to give birth, particularly those as young as 10 years old. The lead population management agency of the country pointed out that "policy and program interventions which will address the issue require interagency and multisectoral collaboration.
" Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III, POPCOM's executive director, said that based on various studies, "the interplay of various factors from personal to the community level explains the incidence of teenage pregnancies. "All these factors should be considered in formulating an integrated series of strategies and interventions.
" Perez said institutional partners such as the immediate family, schools and religious organizations could help address the interplay of numerous factors, including morals and values formation that influence the decision-making of adolescents. According to Philippine civil registration data in 2017, more than 500 babies were born every day to adolescents 10 to 19 years old.
According to empirical evidences, exposure to sexually explicit content from the Internet, lack of access to reproductive health information and services, ineffective parental guidance, negative peer pressure, engagement in risky behaviors, as well as the changing attitudes of adolescents toward their sexuality are among the crucial factors attributable to teenage pregnancies. The role of parents and adult guardians are important in developing positive values among adolescents.
Perez likewise cited the urgency of a number of pending legislations on reproductive health to be enacted. "Given the complexity of the phenomenon of teenage pregnancy and its life-long implications, there is a need for a comprehensive policy solution.
" As such, POPCOM strongly supports the signing of bills authored by Senators
For this purpose, POPCOM supports the call to declare this alarming state as a "national emergency" to foster more focused collaborations among stakeholders. Email: dominitorrevillas@gmail.
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