Touch me not: protecting children from abuse

The duty of UNICEF is to support the rights of children, including the right to security from abuse. The Philippines legally embraced a law in year 1990 which protect the children from abuse, oppression and unjust treatment. But children are still victims of child abuse like sexual and physical abuse, child trafficking and molestation.

Child Protection Specialist at UNICEF Philippines, Ani Saguisag, mentioned sexual abuse that has been a crucial part of abuse in the Philippines. The changes in the legal system have been a stimulus in improving consciousness that abuse is unacceptable, that children have the rights and you are accountable for abusing the young minor individuals.

The reaction of UNICEF to this matter is holistic and support in giving the children a secured community. This includes giving assistance to centers for helping former drug addicts, prisoners, psychiatric patients, or others to adjust to life in general society, raising the child enforcement protection laws, the imprisonment of criminal and the effective strategies to prevent the children from being abuse.

The child protection in the Philippines is still a crucial problem and the support of UNICEF is still ongoing to resolve the problem. These ongoing actions are necessary if we are to stop other children in the country from being victims of child abuse.

A.Brown