Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:07:11 +0000
Children as young as 12 years old who acted with discernment should be held criminally liable while parents of children in conflict with the law would suffer stiffer penalties.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:13:47 +0000
Eleven senators have signed a committee report seeking to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 years old to 12 years old.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:38:02 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Gabriela Women’s party-list has expressed dismay over the approval by the House of Representatives’ of the lowered minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 15 to 12 years old, saying it would harm children’s rights.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:30:32 +0000
She has no intention of running for public office, Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said on Friday, as she distributed land titles to about 80 families in an urban poor community in Tondo, Manila.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:30:32 +0000
She has no intention of running for public office, Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said on Friday, as she distributed land titles to about 80 families in an urban poor community in Tondo, Manila.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:02:47 +0000
Lowering the age of criminal liability to nine years old could turn children into “scapegoats” of the administration in its war against criminality.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:07:03 +0000
Speaker Arroyo said that she supported the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility to nine years old because Duterte wanted it.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:51:07 +0000
Some children as young as six years old are already involved in the illegal drugs trade, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed on Tuesday, a day after a House panel approved a bill that would lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:51:07 +0000
Some children as young as six years old are already involved in the illegal drugs trade, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed on Tuesday, a day after a House panel approved a bill that would lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:27:33 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Bukidnon 3rd District Rep. Manuel Zubiri on Tuesday warned that children in conflict with the law might end up ‘scarred for life or dead’ in prisons for adults because of the lack of reformative facilities in the country. The House of Representatives began the plenary debates on House Bill No. 8858, which […]
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