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Magna Carta of Children

  • Most comprehensive bill on children’s rights
  • Outlines the responsibilities of the whole society to children
  • Protection and empowerment for children, regardless of background
  • Strengthening the Council for the Welfare of Children into a Philippine Commission on Children
  • Institutionalizing the role of the Commission on Human Rights as an Ombudsman for Children

Positive Parenting Bill

  • Creates a comprehensive program to promote the practice of Positive Parenting in all child-rearing settings
  • Based on the principles of the best interest of the child and restorative justice, it establishes a localized intervention mechanism for cases of physical, humiliating, and degrading acts as a form of punishment to a child

Civil Registration Bill

  • Reforms the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System
  • Making the registrations of births, deaths, and marriages free and accessible
  • Improved accessibility: Barangay Civil Registration System and Mobile Civil Registration System
  • Prevents and punishes fraudulent registrations

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Bill

  • Age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education and prevention of gender-based violence
  • Access to reproductive health services, well-trained health personnel, and counseling
  • Social protection for adolescent parents and their children, including helping the adolescent parents get back to school or find work
  • Promoting justice for children affected by the bloody anti-illegal drugs campaign
  • Right of children to a healthy environment and against climate change
  • Tobacco-Free Generation
  • Removing discrimination and distinction against illegitimate children
  • Protecting children from unhealthy food marketing
  • Protection of stateless, internally-displaced, and refugee children
  • Road safety for children
  • Promoting safe digital citizenship for children
  • SOGIESC (sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics) Equality Bill
  • K-12 curriculum review
  • Opposition to Mandatory ROTC for children
  • BARMM Children’s Code
  • Amendatory bills for children (Children in Emergencies, Administrative Naturalization Act, Anti-Rape Act, and Mental Health Act)
  • Budget tagging for children’s programs