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The Good Lie

This document contains two articles related to children's rights and welfare agencies in the Philippines. Article 117 regulates public and private child welfare agencies and gives the Department of Social Welfare and Development authority to grant, suspend or revoke licenses of agencies based on factors like child neglect, unsanitary conditions, and location risks. Article 3 establishes children's rights to dignity, family life, and well-rounded development without distinction or factors like legitimacy. The document notes that Mamere, Abital, Jeremiah, Paul and Daniel were under agency custody and given assistance, and that their rights were violated when abandoned in Sudan without adult guidance during civil war.

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The Good Lie

This document contains two articles related to children's rights and welfare agencies in the Philippines. Article 117 regulates public and private child welfare agencies and gives the Department of Social Welfare and Development authority to grant, suspend or revoke licenses of agencies based on factors like child neglect, unsanitary conditions, and location risks. Article 3 establishes children's rights to dignity, family life, and well-rounded development without distinction or factors like legitimacy. The document notes that Mamere, Abital, Jeremiah, Paul and Daniel were under agency custody and given assistance, and that their rights were violated when abandoned in Sudan without adult guidance during civil war.

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CHRISTINE J.

BARLISO DPE 101 – FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION 3:00 – 3:30 PM

THE GOOD LIE 2014

The political becomes personal, eye-opening and moving in The Good Lie. The heartbreaking
story of the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese children left orphaned and displaced by a civil war in
Sudan. The film powerfully opens with the difficult journey undertaken by five boys and a girl, three of
whom are siblings. They protect off wild animals, dehydration and gun-toting soldiers during their trek,
and one boy perishes and another is taken off by soldiers. The characters are played as children by the
children of Sudanese refugees, while the adult characters are played by actors with ties to Sudan, a
couple having been child soldiers. Such wise casting makes the film all the more effective. The Good Lie
is a small film that feels very big. It's not literally a true story, yet it also is, in the sense it's based on true
events and stars people touched by or involved in the real events to various degrees playing characters
who reflect important realities about what happened and the people it happened to.

ARTICLE 117 (UPHOLD)


ART. 117. Child welfare agencies, whether public or private, which provides “encouragement, care, and
protection to any category of children and youth whether mentally gifted, dependent, abandoned,
neglected, abused, handicapped, disturbed, or youthful offenders” are also regulated by P.D. No. 603.
When granting, suspending or revoking a license issued to said agencies, the DSWD is directed to apply
the protection and best interests of the child as the first and basic consideration. The DSWD is also
empowered, after notice and hearing, to suspend or revoke the license of a child welfare agency on any
of the following grounds:

(3) That the children therein are being neglected or are undernourished;
(4) That the place is so unsanitary so as to make it unfit for children;
(5) That said agency is located in a place or community where children should not be, or is physically
dangerous to children or would unduly expose children to crime, vice, immorality, corruption or severe
cruelty; or
(6) That said agency has by any act or omission shown its incompetence or unworthiness to continue
acting as a child welfare agency.

(Mamere, Abital, Jeremiah, Paul and Daniel were under the custody of Social Welfare Agencies and were
given designated works and home for their assistance and donations from US.)

ARTICLE 3 (VIOLATED)
ART. 3. Rights of the Child. – All children shall be entitled to the rights herein set forth without
distinction as to legitimacy or illegitimacy, sex, social status, religion, political antecedents, and other
factors.

(1) Every child is endowed with the dignity and worth of a human being from the moment of his
conception, as generally accepted in medical parlance, and has, therefore, the right to be born well.
(2) Every child has the right to a wholesome family life that will provide him with love, care and
understanding guidance and counseling, and moral and material security. The dependent or abandoned
child shall be provided with the nearest substitute for a home.
(3) Every child has the right to a well-rounded development of his personality to the end that he may
become a happy, useful and active member of society.

(Their rights as children were violated by the time they were abandoned in Sudan and tortured by the
lawless soldiers with lesser chance to survive in a Civil War without guidance of any adults.)

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