PHOTO: PHILIPPINES: A girl sits, her face covered in the latticed shadows cast by a wire fence, outside the UNICEF-assisted Nayon Kabataan Rehabilitation Centre for street children and victims of child labour and physical abuse in Manila, the capital. (UNICEF/ HQ97-0939/Jeremy Horner)
Children’s NGO Network. (October –December 1999). Pitik-Pitik, A quarterly publication of Children’s NGO Network (CNN), 2 (2).

This particular volume of the Newsletter covers the NGO report that was submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, provides a summary of the report, explores the types and level of advocacy by CNN, features a story entitled Ang Paraiso ni Eden which looks at the influence one child can have, and also contains an article on rights to education.