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The Child Rights Network (CRN) and the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) identified the proposed legislations as those on “Anti-Child Rape Bill,” “Prohibition of Child Marriage” and the “Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.”
The two non-governmental organizations said that last Dec. 1, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill 7836 which provides for stronger protection against rape, sexual exploitation, and abuse and increasing the age for determining the commission of statutory rape from below 12 to below 16 years.
They said HB 7836 “contains potent provisions which include increasing the age to determine statutory rape from below 12 to below 16, equalizing the protection for victims of rape, whether a boy or a girl, and the removal of marriage as forgiveness exemption where the perpetrator is freed of legal responsibility if the perpetrator marries the person he rape
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Coding scheme still suspended
THE NUMBER coding scheme will remain suspended in the capital region during the holiday season amid a coronavirus pandemic, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
This is despite the growing volume of cars on roads as Christmas draws near, MMDA Assistant Secretary Celine B. Pialago told DZBB radio on Sunday.
“The number coding scheme will remain suspended until public transportation normalizes,” she said in Filipino.
The scheme was first suspended in June, at the height of a strict lockdown in Manila, the capital and nearby cities and provinces.
Ms. Pialago said if the number coding scheme is restored, they were likely to get a number of requests for exemptions from those who work on the front line.