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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 261 -
CREATING A NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE FIRST ASIA PACIFIC
SUMMIT ON CHILD RIGHTS AND THE MEDIA
WHEREAS, the international community is one
in upholding and protecting the best interests of children with the
universal ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Rights
of the Child;
WHEREAS, the Philippines as a State Party to the Convention is
committed to undertake all appropriate measures for the implementation
of its provisions;
WHEREAS, the Convention stipulates the right of the child to access to
information and materials from a diversity of sources necessary for
promoting the social, spiritual, moral, physical and mental well-being
of children;
WHEREAS, the provision of quality mass media, planning and programming
should be geared toward fulfilling the right of the child to
information;
WHEREAS, the 1995 World Summit on Children and Television, held in
Melbourne, Australia, is a recognition of the development rights of a
child;
WHEREAS, the holding of the First Asia Pacific Summit on Child Rights
and the Media was identified as the first regional response to the
Summit;
WHEREAS, the willingness of the Philippines to host the Summit is a
concrete manifestation of our commitment to improving the quality of
lives of children;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order:
Section 1.
Sec. 2.
Office
of the Press Secretary
Philippine Information Agency
Presidential Management Staff
Office of the Presidential
Assistant for Social Development
Department of Education, Culture
and Sports
Department of Foreign Affairs
Department of Tourism
Department of Interior and Local
Government
Department of Budget and
Management
National Economic and
Development Authority
Philippine National Police
UNICEF Manila
Republic Broadcasting System,
Inc. (GMA)
Asean Broadcasting Foundation
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 20th day of March in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Six.
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