The Provincial Council for the Protection of Children (PCPC) of Sarangani Province expressed support to the campaign #Children, Not Soldiers, which seeks to end recruitment and use of children in armed struggle.
The PCPC will include in its proposed Provincial Children’s Code a provision for the protection of children from recruitment and use by armed groups.
In the 2015 First PCPC Meeting held inside the Provincial Capitol at Alabel on Tuesday, Plan International, one of the member-Non Government Organizations of the council, raised a motion which seeks provision for the children’s code “that persons below 18 years old must not be recruited or take any support roles in armed group.”
“It’s a grave violation of child’s rights if you involve a person below 18 years old in armed struggle as combatant or in any support roles like spy, porter or cook,” Jocelyn L. Kanda, Plan International Project Coordinator said.
Kanda presented in the meeting the Children Affected by Armed Conflict (CAAC) Project, a joint activity by Plan, United Nations Children’s Fund and Moro Islamic Liberation Front which promotes child’s rights and child protection.
The project is in support to the UN-MILF Action Plan, an undertaking primarily aimed to stop recruitment of minors in the military structure of the MILF.
The MILF has allowed UNICEF and its partner, Plan International, access to its base camps for the conduct of campaign to address “child soldier” issue.
The MILF is the only non-state group in the world which have signed an action plan with the UN to stop recruitment of minors in its armed struggle.
The initiative seeks to educate Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) (MILF’s military wing) Commanders and MILF community members about child’s rights and protection as well as the general order of the MILF leadership that prohibits recruitment and use of minors in the BIAF. In Sarangani Province, BIAF camps are Malapatan and Masim towns under the 107th Base Command.
Kanda related the BIAF commanders and its members were already oriented last year by UNICEF. “This June 16-18, we are going to orient children, parents and community leaders about the #Children Not Soldiers campaign at Barangay Pananag in Maasim,” she said.
Board Member Arman Guili, requested that the campaign for the MILF must also be replicated in the province in order to protect minors from far flung communities from joining other revolutionary groups.
PCPC is a special body of the provincial government which plans and crafts policies for the welfare of the children in the province.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/new/item/409-sarangani-provincial-council-for-the-protection-of-children-supports-children-not-soldiers
In the 2015 First PCPC Meeting held inside the Provincial Capitol at Alabel on Tuesday, Plan International, one of the member-Non Government Organizations of the council, raised a motion which seeks provision for the children’s code “that persons below 18 years old must not be recruited or take any support roles in armed group.”
“It’s a grave violation of child’s rights if you involve a person below 18 years old in armed struggle as combatant or in any support roles like spy, porter or cook,” Jocelyn L. Kanda, Plan International Project Coordinator said.
Kanda presented in the meeting the Children Affected by Armed Conflict (CAAC) Project, a joint activity by Plan, United Nations Children’s Fund and Moro Islamic Liberation Front which promotes child’s rights and child protection.
The project is in support to the UN-MILF Action Plan, an undertaking primarily aimed to stop recruitment of minors in the military structure of the MILF.
The MILF has allowed UNICEF and its partner, Plan International, access to its base camps for the conduct of campaign to address “child soldier” issue.
The MILF is the only non-state group in the world which have signed an action plan with the UN to stop recruitment of minors in its armed struggle.
The initiative seeks to educate Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) (MILF’s military wing) Commanders and MILF community members about child’s rights and protection as well as the general order of the MILF leadership that prohibits recruitment and use of minors in the BIAF. In Sarangani Province, BIAF camps are Malapatan and Masim towns under the 107th Base Command.
Kanda related the BIAF commanders and its members were already oriented last year by UNICEF. “This June 16-18, we are going to orient children, parents and community leaders about the #Children Not Soldiers campaign at Barangay Pananag in Maasim,” she said.
Board Member Arman Guili, requested that the campaign for the MILF must also be replicated in the province in order to protect minors from far flung communities from joining other revolutionary groups.
PCPC is a special body of the provincial government which plans and crafts policies for the welfare of the children in the province.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/new/item/409-sarangani-provincial-council-for-the-protection-of-children-supports-children-not-soldiers
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