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Youth Justice News

In 2007, in a General Comment on youth justice, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body which monitors states compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, indicated that a minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) below 12 years was not acceptable. The current MACR in the Philippines sits well above that threshold as a consequence of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act 2006 which raised the age at which children can be held criminally liable from 9 to 15 years. However, a statutory amendment currently before the House of Representatives seeks to return the MACR to that which prevailed prior to 2006. The explanatory note to House Bill Number 002 argues that while