M anila, Philippines – The debate on lowering the age of criminal liability heated up when the House justice committee approved House Bill (HB) 8858 on January 22, 2019.. Under the proposed bill ...

READ: UNICEF: Lowering criminal liability age harms kids’ well-being “We cannot treat them the same way we treat adults. Whatever consequences we impose on their criminal activities, this does ...

Young criminals. Despite movements calling for the stop to lowering the age of criminal liability for children, there are others who want it. According to an Ear source, a group of children ...

The measure seeking to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years old will not pass the Senate, Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV declared on Monday. Aquino made the bold remark after the House ...

A prominent Filipino clinical psychologist called the plan of lawmakers to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 to nine years old “developmentally. Skip to content. OCTOBER 27, 2022.

Lowering the age of criminal liability is a response to the "call of the times," Senate President Tito Sotto said Monday, even as he stressed that minors who will be caught committing crime will not ...

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez filed House Bill 002 to lower the age of criminal liability, claiming that crime has risen because children are being used as drug couriers.

Philippines Considers Lowering Minimum Age Of Criminal Liability The Philippine legislature is expected to approve a bill that would reduce the age at which children could be tried as adults to as ...

Chinese lawmakers are mulling over lowering the minimum age at which a minor can be convicted to 12, in individual cases under specific circumstances. The proposal was made in a draft amendment to ...

However, lowering the age of criminal liability will not help curb violence in schools. In China, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14, ...