Based on the recent statistics of Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) report from 2001 to 2006, more than 200,000 Filipino children suffered from various exploitation acts and human rights injustices.
The data have been compiled in the commissioned book titled, ‘Uncounted Lives: Children, Women and Conflict in the Philippines’ by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). This is a reality that may also happen in other parts of the world, especially in the Third World countries and poorest of the poor nations.
The CRC works as a non-government institution that focuses on Filipino children and families who were victimized by a number of threats and state violence in the country. It provides social services and assistance on children living in the rural and urban areas who have been inflicted with physical defects or health diseases, identifying emotional problems, and social needs.
It is one of the many organizations that help victims of arrest, physical torture, homelessness, war and conflict, bombing, killings, disappearance, and other a number of violations to human life.
The CRC reported that out of the 800 incidents of human rights violations in the Philippines recorded, 215,233 Filipino children were confirmed human rights victims from 2001 to 2006. Among these cases 58 children were murdered, 40 were maimed and 17 were tortured severely with other instances of humiliation.
The other 215,060 children were evacuees from their homes in the counter-insurgency operations in Mindanao, southern part of the Philippines.
With these cases, these violations are an indication of social injustices that may also be happening in other parts of the world. Institutions like UNICEF, United Nations and other non-government organizations will truly be helpful for the children to recover from their dark past.
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