GFC On the Road has launched a new feature: sharing the voices of our grantee partners and extending grassroots knowledge globally through guest blogging. The following post is from Rowena Legaspi, executive director of Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center.

Manila, Philippines - The Children’s Legal Advocacy Network (CLAN), a coalition of 15 nongovernmental and people’s organizations in the Philippines, joined all human rights workers, defenders, educators, activists, and advocates around the world in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with a resolved and affirmed commitment to continuously promote and protect the human rights of all, especially the poor, the oppressed, and the marginalized. GFC grantee partner Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center, a member of the Children’s Legal Advocacy Network, sent us the following piece on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

As we offered this day our conviction in the pursuit of human rights protection to the child survivors of violence whom we protect—the child soldier, child in conflict with the law, child in labor, child in corporal punishment situation, child exploited, child abused, child trafficked, child internally displaced—we also affirmed our commitment to protect other vulnerable children and children in crisis who are the daughters and sons of victims of human rights violations and who came from families of peasants, indigenous people, overseas Filipino workers, laborers, and urban and rural poor, which constitute around 29 million Filipinos; these children we care for are the ones whose rights are most violated. Read more