In 2022, the World Risk Index ranked the Philippines as the country with the highest disaster risk. What’s more, widespread poverty is a major obstacle to children reaching their full potential; girls ...

Child labor is any work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children and young people. It robs children of their right to education, forcing them to drop out of ...

MANILA (Xinhua): An estimated 2 million children in the Philippines are suffering from severe food poverty, being unable to get enough healthy food, according to a new UNICEF report released to ...

The figure is equivalent to around 5.14 million children who live in extreme poverty in the Philippines. Extreme poverty is defined in this context as living on less than $2.15 (about P121) a day. The ...

Child poverty incidence, however, does not fully capture what Filipino children are faced with. The Philippines in fact ranked among the top five countries globally with the most unvaccinated children ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned of a “real and widespread learning crisis” in the Philippines, as recent ...

Child trafficking remains an urgent concern in the Philippines, posing a severe threat ... that aims to break the cycle of poverty by providing financial assistance to poor families, improving ...

particularly in remote provinces in the Philippines, the shackling or arbitrary detention of people, including children, with psychosocial disabilities is not uncommon, mainly because of poverty ...