An umbrella organization of child rights advocates has urged the government to address poverty and the lack of employment opportunities in the country rather than work on lowering the minimum age ...

A doctor and psychology professor at the Ateneo De Manila University (AdMU) on Monday told lawmakers that lowering the age of criminal liability to nine years old would lead the youth to a ...

Moves to lower the age of criminal liability run counter to the spirit of various Philippine laws which recognize the vulnerability of minors Under the proposed bill, children aged 9 to below 15 ...

Young criminals. Despite movements calling for the stop to lowering the age of criminal liability for children, there are others who want it.

The Philippine legislature is expected to approve a bill that would reduce the age at which children could be tried as adults to as young as 12 years old. Critics say the change is draconian.

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 ...

(READ: House leaders ‘doing a Kellyanne Conway’ on age of criminal liability) Lawmakers recently floated the “compromise” of lowering the age to just 12 instead of 9.

A prominent Filipino clinical psychologist called the plan of lawmakers to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 to nine years old “developmentally inappropriate,” “psychologically ...

A former policeman said he is okay with lowering the age of criminal liability to nine years old. He said during operations in previous years he and his fellow policemen always had to contend with ...

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.

THE HOUSE committee on justice on Monday approved what its chairman called a “pro-children” measure lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 9 years old from the current 15 years old.

The proposal to lower the age of criminal liability is a response to public concern about the recent increase in juvenile violence, said lawyer Zheng Ziyin, director of a professional committee on ...