[3][needs update] The International Labour Organization estimates that 55.3% of these children undertake hazardous work in an agricultural setting.
7610, known as the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination Act, gives the followings definitions pertinent to understanding the Child Labor situation in the Philippines: The joint project of the Philippine National Statistics Office and International Labour Organization made distinctions on the kinds of work that children subjected to.
3071, also known as "An Act to Regulate the Employment of Women and Children in Shops, Factories, Industrial, Agricultural and Mercantile Establishments, and Other Place of Labor in the Philippine Islands, to Provide Penalties for Violations Hereof and for Other Purposes".
When the Philippines declared independence from American rule in 1946, all existing laws enacted under the former regime were replaced by Republic Acts.
Other provisions of the RPC relating to slavery, prostitution, corruption, illegal detention, and kidnapping of minors are all applicable to child workers.
[7] Two years after Philippine independence from American control, the Republic became a member state of the International Labour Organization on 15 June 1948.
The Labor Code failed, however, to include the terms and conditions of employment of children previously provided by R.A. 679, as amended by P.D.
A new law called R.A. 7658 or "An Act Prohibiting the Employment of Children below 15 Years of Age in Public and Private Undertakings" was passed in October 1993 for this purpose.
9231; Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act; Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act recruitment Reenlistment of the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines; Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act service Reenlistment of the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines; 2003 Declaration on Ratifying the Optional Protocol Despite government efforts on amendments and ratification of laws and policies regarding child labor, the present policies and legislation responsible for the protection and rights of child workers in the Philippines still remain scattered among the different laws of the country.
[21] The widespread poverty and unemployment rates in the country means that poor or low-income households are vulnerable to income and employment shocks.
Lacking in physical assets that may be sold or offered as collateral in order to reduce or prevent interruptions to their income streams, poor households may resort to sending their younger members to work as a risk-reducing strategy.
Based on the result of the 2013 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass media survey facilitated by the National Statistic Office, 10.6% of ages 6–24 of the country's population is out of school.
[22] The relationship between child work, bad performance at school, and eventual non-attendance can take various routes as illustrated in many documented cases.
In general, time divided between work and studying does not permit a child to focus on the latter, causing him to fall behind with his lessons and to get low grades.
[22] Continuous exposure to various hazards in their work environments, especially chemical and biological ones that are invisible, places children's health and lives at great risk.
While adults working under the same conditions face similar risks, an argument for minimum health and safety regulations would pose that children are especially vulnerable to work-related illnesses.
[25] They are leading the networks in the progressive eradication of child labor through protecting, preventing, and removing the children out of the hazardous and exploitative works, which also includes curing and redeeming them back into society.
HELP ME stands for: H for Health services; E for Education and training, L for Livelihood opportunities for people involved; P for Prevention, protection, and prosecution; M for Monitoring; and lastly, E for Evaluation.
The whole program will keep in line through the following objectives: keeping a monitoring system for the child laborers and the services provided to them, delivering services fitting to the situations of the child laborers, and finally, collaborating with different departments and program partners such as DOLE, DSWD, DepEd, DOH, DILG, DA, DOJ, TESDA, NEDA, CWC, PIA and NCIP.
[31] Introduced by the Bureau of Women and Young Workers, the Project Angel Tree works as a connection for child laborers and those stakeholders who wish to collaboratively partake in protecting their rights.
They call this system value networks, where through them, positive social interaction would be formed and child laborers would be granted access to resources.
[34] They hold Child Protection Services in which they reach out on the children for them to recover from the experience of labor and be reintegrated back to their families.
They incorporate issues and concerns affecting trafficking in children in its development and strategic frameworks and ensures the adoption of such by the LGUs and other stakeholders.
[36] They do not directly implement programs for the children; they facilitate or support other agencies and service providers through activities that are in line with their functions.
Cecilia Flores-Oebanda spearheaded the Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFI) in order to eradicate slavery and human trafficking.
Its actions revolve around providing residential care to victims, mainly women and children, of difficult circumstances such as exploitation and child labor.
The organization supports the country through promoting growth and developing their skills through quality education, especially for the children who remain victims to employment.
The organization helps secure the future of children vulnerable to exploitation, child labour, and other causes, and builds a community that would ensure their safety and protection.
The partnership with organization started when its founder, Robert Willard Pierce, initiated the China Challenge, which led to sponsoring and caring for the poor and needy.
It first helped an orphanage called The Good Shepherd's Fold in 1957, and since then, it has continued to move to foster a healthy environment for the children and their families.