Sotto welcomes law providing for protection of children in times of armed conflict 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Vanne Elaine TerrazolaSenate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday welcomed the enactment of a law providing for the special protection of children in times of armed conflict. 11188, the “Special Protection of Children in Situations of Armed Conflict Act,” which President Duterte signed last January 10, and released by the Palace Tuesday. “They are the ones who are members of displaced families as a result of armed conflict, physically weakened, orphaned or disabled as a result of armed conflict, combatants and those mobilized for other armed conflict-related activities and disrupted from schooling due to armed conflict,” Sotto said. The Inter-Agency Committee on Children Involved in Armed Conflict shall also be reconstituted as the Inter-Agency Committee on Children in Situations of Armed Conflict (IAC-CSAC), which will be chaired by the Council for the Welfare of Children.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 20, 2019 09:58 UTC