The Child Rights Network (CRN) has asked the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to help secure the Lumad children who were reportedly “rescued” by the Philippine National Police (PNP) last February 15 in Cebu City.
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+ February 15, 2021 CLARK FREEPORT The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with other member-agencies of the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (ICACP), led the celebration of the Safer Internet Day Philippines (SIDPH) on February 13.
The SIDPH celebration, mandated through Presidential Proclamation 417, is one of the strategies of the government, through the ICACP, to create public awareness on the need to ensure the protection of children from risks and abuses brought by misuse of cyberspace, or lack of awareness on internet safety.
The celebration, which carried the theme Bagong Normal: Ligtas na
Internet for all, entered on the recently signed Child Online Safe Guarding Policy under Republic Act 10929 or the Free Internet Access in Public Spaces.
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 9 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with other member-agencies of the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (ICACP), will lead the celebration of the Safer Internet Day Philippines (SIDPH) on February 13 with a virtual kick-off.
Karol Suarez
Special to Louisville Courier Journal
In a one-minute TikTok video last fall, drug traffickers on a rigid inflatable boat yelled to the pilot to speed up as a Customs Surveillance Service vessel of Spain took chase. The viral video, which got more than 1 million views, looked like a scene from the Netflix “Narcos” series. But it was a real, high-speed chase in the cartel drug wars.
Cartels have long used social media to shock and intimidate their enemies, said Howard Campbell, anthropologist and drug expert at the University of Texas at El Paso. It has proven to be an effective strategy,” he said. “The use of TikTok is just the latest phase of this phenomenon.”