In collaboration with UNICEF, Save the Children Philippines, and Plan International Philippines, the said summit will be held starring November 14 to 15 in Pasay City.
Among the distinguished plenary speakers in the Summit is Mikiko Otani, a member and independent expert of the UN Committee on the Rights of Child, a body created to facilitate the fulfillment of the CRC, and Senator Sherwin Gatchalian and Representative Roman Romulo, chairpersons of the Committee on Basic Education in the Senate and House, respectively.
DepEd cited that on November 20, 1989, world leaders made a stand to “ensure that children around the globe be allowed to grow, learn, play, develop, and flourish with dignity” when the United Nations General Assembly made a commitment to protect the rights of the next generation by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child .
DepEd noted that the Convention “clearly outlined the rights of a child the countries must respect, protect, and fulfill” and it has “inscribed and defined the rights a child, or any person under the age of 18, which cannot be taken away.”