Tag: zones of peace

Duterte signs into law measure granting protection to children in conflict areas

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure that will grant protection to children in conflict areas. Under RA 11188, the government is ordered to take all measures to prevent the “recruitment, re-recruitment, use, displacement of, or grave child rights violations against children involved in armed conflict.” It also requires the government to provide special protection to children, called “zones of peace,” in “situations of armed conflict from all forms of abuse, violence, neglect, […]