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NDFP Declaration
and Program of Action
for the Rights, Protection
and Welfare of Children
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Table of Contents
Preface
Luis G. Jalandoni
1 July 2012 vii
The NDFP’s Defense of the Rights of the Filipino Child
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison
25 October 2005 1
NDFP Declaration and Program of Action
for the Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children
24 April 2012 11
Profile of Filipino Children
25 July 2012 25
The NDFP Declaration and Program of Action
for Filipino Children
Luis G. Jalandoni
29 June 2012 39
CPDF Statement Congratulating the Launching
of the NDFP Declaration and Program of Action
for the Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children
Cordillera People’s Democratic Front
29 June 2012 48
The Revolutionary Movement’s Advocacy
and Protection of Children’s Rights and Welfare
NDF-Bicol Region
29 June 2012 51
The Entire Revolutionary Forces in NEMR
Firmly Adhere to the NDFP Declaration and Program of Action
for the Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children
NDF-North-Eastern Mindanao Region
15 June 2012 55
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Uphold and Protect the Rights of Filipino Children!
NDF-Mindanao
15 June 2012 59
Appendix A – Memorandum on the Minimum Age
Requirement for NPA Fighters
15 October 1999 63
Appendix B – On the NPA’s Alleged Mass Recruitment
of Child Guerillas
30 August 1999 66
Appendix C – NDFP Negotiating Panel
Letter to the UN Secretary General
7 March 2005 69
Appendix D – NDFP National Executive Committee
Letter to the UN Secretary General
24 November 2008 73
Appendix E-1 – Complaints Filed with the JMC
Against the GRP/GPH for HR & IHL Violations
Involving Children and Minors 79
Appendix E-2 – Additional Complaints Filed with the JMC
Against the GRP/GPH for HR & IHL Violations
Involving Children and Minors 150
Appendix E-3 – Incidents of GRP/GPH Violations
of HR & IHL Involving Children and Minors
from News Reports and Statements of NPA Commands 168
Appendix E-4 – Incidents of GRP/GPH HR & IHL Violations
Involving Children and Minors
from Human Rights Watch Statements 177
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Preface
Preface
by Luis G. Jalandoni
Chairperson
NDFP Negotiating Panel
1 July 2012
In 2005, the NDFP Human Rights Monitoring Committee (NDFP-MC)
published a 94-page booklet entitled NDFP’s Defense of the Rights of the
Filipino Child. It contained data on the status and conditions of Filipino
children, the comprehensive position of the NDFP on their rights and
welfare, as well as letters addressed to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,
UNICEF Philippines and a press statement which refuted baseless
allegations of violations by the NDFP of children’s rights.
It also featured a table of human rights and international humanitarian
law (IHL) violations against children and minors by the armed forces of the
Government of the Philippines (GPH, formerly designated as the GRP) from
selected complaints filed as of 16 March 2005 with the Joint Monitoring
Committee (JMC), the body created under the 1998 Comprehensive
Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian
Law (CARHRIHL) signed between the GPH/GRP and the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), to monitor implementation
of the Agreement.
Seven years from the publication of this booklet, Filipino children continue
to suffer under the same appalling conditions of poverty, want and neglect
of the present semi-colonial and semi-feudal social system. Aggravating
these conditions is the deliberate targeting of children in military and
paramilitary operations against communities suspected to be under the
control or supportive of the revolutionary movement that is represented
by the NDFP in the peace negotiations. In order to conceal its own atrocities
and abuses against children and vilify the national liberation movement,
the GRP/GPH has been fabricating cases of use and recruitment by the
New People’s Army (NPA) of so-called child soldiers and falsely attributing
all other forms of child rights violations to the NDFP.
In response to these continuing violations of the rights of children by the
GRP/GPH, the NDFP in several statements has declared that these violations
which mainly victimize the children of workers and peasants constitute
a just cause for the continuing armed revolution of the Filipino people.
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NDFP Declaration and Program of Action
for the Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children
After research by the NDFP-MC and the NDFP-Joint Secretariat (JS)
and legal study by the legal consultants of the NDFP, the revolutionary
movement issued its Declaration and Program of Action for the Rights,
Protection and Welfare of Children which was formally adopted by the
NDFP National Council on 24 April 2012, on the 39th Anniversary of the
founding of the National Democratic Front.
The present book features the Declaration where the NDFP resolves to
carry out a program of action for the protection and welfare of children
in accordance with its principles and policies as well as with international
norms and standards pertinent to the rights and welfare of children.
It reaffirms the NDFP position on the defense of the rights of the Filipino
child and supplements the previous publication with new data and
experiences from the past seven years, including those culled from
complaints filed with the JMC during the said period. It is hoped that this
publication will expose and belie the falsities authored by the GRP/GPH
with respect to Filipino children and their rights and help in dismantling
ill-founded biases against the NDFP.
This book consists of four parts and five appendices. In part one, NDFP Chief
Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison introduces the NDFP’s commitment
to the protection of children’s rights in the article “NDFP’s Defense of the
Rights of the Filipino Child.” This article has been featured in the previous
booklet and has served as guide in the formulation of the Declaration.
Part two contains the NDFP Declaration and Program of Action for the
Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children. Highlighted in the Program
of Action is the creation of a Special Office for the Protection of Children
which will, among others, receive complaints about violations of children’s
rights and oversee the implementation of the program of action by all
NDFP organizations and instrumentalities.
Part three is an update of the profile of Filipino children in the previous
booklet, presenting their current situation in hard facts and statistics that
reveal in concrete terms the mindless disregard by the ruling classes of
big landlords and compradors to the rights, protection and welfare of the
great majority of Filipino children.
Part four and five contain the statement read by me during the formal
launching of the Declaration on 29 June 2012 and the statements issued by
selected spokespersons of the NDF in reaffirmation of their commitment to
the Declaration, specifically from the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front
(CPDF), NDF-Bicol, NDF-North-Eastern Mindanao and NDF-Mindanao,
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