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Children and youths are spending significantly more time online now that school and all other activities have been suspended due to the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). Since the ECQ started last 15 March, the majority of Filipinos have been confined to their homes, leaving children, youths, and adults alike with…

Save the Children Philippines on Thursday urged parents and guardians to ensure the online safety of children as many of them spend more time on digital platforms due to the suspension of classes and limited mobility under the government-mandated Enhanced Community Quarantine that aims to prevent the spread of COVID-19…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with a non-government organization advocating children’s rights, launched a manual on online safety for public school students to prevent Internet-related child abuse. DepEd and the Stairway Foundation have produced the CyberSafe Project Manuals, which contain individual lesson plans targeting Grades…

Children rely on their parents to protect them from bullies, shelter them from harm, keep them safe. But while some children are trying to get around the internet and TV controls their parents set up to prevent them from seeing mature or inappropriate content, others are forced to create that…

Eight out of 10 Filipino children are at risk of being victims of sexual abuse or bullying online, according to a recent study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). The Unicef-Ipsos study titled “Perils and Possibilities: Growing up online” explored the youth’s perspective on the risks they are facing…

Unicef presses governments to better protect young people as international survey finds most 18-year-olds say friends take risks online Eight out of 10 18-year-olds worldwide believe young people are in danger of being sexually abused or taken advantage of online, a Unicef study suggests. The poll on unwanted sexual comments,…

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor families in the Philippines are pushing their children into performing live sex online for paedophiles around the globe in what one senior UNICEF official called a form of “child slavery”. “There’s no limits to how cruel and gross this business is – and it’s…

In the Philippines, parents are sexually exploiting their children via live stream online in exchange for money. The Guardian revealed Monday the problem is much worse than authorities initially thought it to be. One of the first of these cases was in 2011 and involved a mother who, with the…

Eighty percent of teenagers aged 13 to 16 have been cyberbullied through social media, according to a 2015 survey by child-care nonprofit Stairway Foundation Inc. The survey, the results of which were released Wednesday, was the second study carried out by SFI "to address a gap in data concerning Child…

Nine out of 10 young Filipinos use the internet and are being exposed to potential dangers in the cyberspace like bullying and abuse but only five of 10 children are being guided, a recent survey of a non-government child care organization said. Stairway Foundation had recently teamed up with the…