playgrounds and malls refer to the occupation, shelling or targeting for propaganda of
schools, hospitals or places of worship; causing damage to such places, or harm or
injury to their personnel; or causing the total or partial physical destruction of such
facilities; or disruption of educational activities and health services. These also refer to
attacks of such places which have been temporarily abandoned by the community as a
result of armed conflict;
(f) Camps refer to structures or spaces occupied by government forces and armed
groups;
(g) Child refers to:
(1) A person below eighteen (18) years of age; or
(2) A person eighteen (18) years of age or older hut who is unable to fully take
care of one’s self; or protect one’s self from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation
or discrimination; and unable to act with discernment because of physical or
mental disability or condition;
(h) Child protection refers to measures, structures and activities that ensure the
prevention and response to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence affecting children.
It shall include the promotion of their development and psychosocial well-being;
(i) Children affected by armed conflict refer to all children population experiencing or
who have experienced armed conflict;
(j) Children involved in armed conflict (CIAC) refer to children who are either forcibly,
compulsorily recruited, or who voluntarily joined a government force or any armed
group in any capacity. They may participate directly in armed hostilities as combatants
or fighters; or indirectly through support roles such as scouts, spies, saboteurs, decoys,
checkpoint assistants, couriers, messengers, porters, cooks or as sexual objects;
(k) Children in situations of armed conflict refer to all children involved in armed conflict,
children affected by armed conflict and internally displaced children:
(l) Extrajudicial killings refer to all acts and omissions of State actors that constitute
violation of the general recognition of the right to life embodied in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
the UNCRC and similar other human rights treaties to which the Philippines is a State
party;
(m) False branding of children or labeling children as children involved in armed conflict
refers to the voluntary and intentional act of referring to, calling, defining, reporting or
any other form of communication that incorrectly defines children as children involved in
armed conflict, when the status or condition of such children are such that they are not
involved in armed conflict as defined in this Act;
(n) False reporting of a child in custody refers to the voluntary and intentional act of any
person of providing false, incorrect or mistaken information in relation to a child in
custody in relation to situations of armed conflict;