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The Philippines ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on August 21, 1990. It also ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict on August 26, 2003, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography on ...
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao .
Climate change is having serious impacts in the Philippines such as increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, resource shortages, and environmental degradation. [ 1] All of these impacts together have greatly affected the Philippines' agriculture, water, infrastructure, human health, and coastal ...
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Joseph Ejercito Estrada KGCR (Tagalog: [ʔɛˌhɛːɾ.sɪˈto ʔɛsˈtɾaː.dɐ]; born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, [1] [a] is a Filipino politician and former actor, who served as the 13th President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, the 9th Vice President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. $309,420,425. $309,420,425. $496,128,100. 2007. * These films fall outside the top 100 when considering only initial gross, and would be replaced by Independence Day ($306.16m), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ($305.41m), and Skyfall ($304.36m).
Poverty incidence of Antique 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 51.61 2009 44.25 2012 30.90 2015 26.03 2018 19.13 2021 18.20 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Agriculture A sugarcane field in Sibalom For the year 1998, production of palay, the primary crop of the province, registered a total of 177,521 metric tons (mt.) or 4,438,025 cavans from 58,847 hectares with an average yield of 3.02 metric ...
Zamboanga Occidental (2002, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2023) – On September 25, 2023, Zamboanga del Norte 3rd District Representative Adrian Michael A. Amatong filed House Bill No. 9311 seeking to create a new province out of his constituency.