Social Studies Lesson 4

laws protecting hrs

• children’s rights

• women’s rights

• indigenous ppl’s rights

• anti-vawc law

ejk

• extra-judicial killings

• summary and arbitrary execution of a person by a gov authority w/o sanction of any judicial/legal process

• 131 EJK incidents, enforced disappearance (ED), and 116 victims of torture (CHR, 2014)

• yet to be legally defined -> challenge to classify between political killings or crime under the Revised Penal Code

orgs that fight for ph hrs

• SELDA

• CARMMA

• CAMB-LNMB

• KARAPATAN

• ANAKBAYAN

SELDA

Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto

CARMMA

Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacañang

CAMB-LNMB

Coalition Against Marcos Burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani

Nov 30, 2016

heroes of ML era memorialised at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City

heroes of ML era

• Jovito Salonga

• Marciano Anastacio Jr.

• Fortunato Camus

• Benjamin “Behn” Cervantes

• Hernando Cortez

• Edgardo M. Dojillo

• Manuel Dorotan

• Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan

• Ricardo Filio

• Margarita “Maita” Gomez

• Leticia Jimenez-Magsanoc

• Joel Jose

• Bishop Julio X. Labayen

• Romulo Peralta

• Jose Aquilino Tangente

• Simplicio Villados

• Danilo P. Vizmanas

• Antonio “Tony” Zumel

Compensation Act of 2013

• 100 Martial Law victims interviewed.

• Martial Law datasets – 7024 Martial Law files

• Presented on September 23, 2015 in commemoration of Martial law.

• Data on hr violations ranked from highest to lowest, including location of violations

CHR 2014 Annual Report

• 1045 – Cases of Violations of Civil and Political Rights 2014

• 190 – Cases of Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

CHR

• Commission on Human Rights

• annually gathers and addresses reports on hr violations

Extrajudicial Killings and the Fight Against Drugs and Criminality

• 2593 - drug- related fatalities May 10 – December 6, 2016 according to ABS-CBN

• 36% - done by unidentified assailants.

• 56% - due to police operations

PNP Oplan-Double Barrel Project Tokhang

aims to combat the problem on illegal drugs.

chr incidents

• 798 incidents linked to drug trade

• 793/798 resulted in death of at least one victim

• total 1,014 victims – 920 killed, 87 survived, no info on status of 7 victims

• number of victims belong to the marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged sectors

slide 1

• commission conducted 3805 investigations from 2016-2021

• 1557 investigations were launched in 2019 (41% of investigations)

• 504 cases 2016

• 571 cases 2017

• 661 cases 2018

• 279 cases 2020

• 233 cases 2021

assigned sex of victims

• 83% or 839 male at birth

• 4% or 39 female at birth

• no info 136 victims

ages of victims

• 53% 25-44 yrs old

• no one older than 74

• 11 children victims

slide 4

• 481 incidents by law enforcers w/ 577 victims

• 387 buy bust operations

• 91 warrantless arrests

• 50 service of search warrant

• 24 tokhang

Torture

• act by which a person inflicts pain or punishment unto someone to obtain information or confession

• can either be physical or mental

Anti-torture Act of 2009

An act penalizing torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment and prescribing penalties

UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials: Article 5

No law enforcement official may inflict, instigate or tolerate any act of torture

The Wheel of Torture

• aka Roleta ng Kapalaran

• used by law enforcers in Biñan, Laguna in torturing prisoners, accdg to CHR

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

• RA 7610

• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

RA 7610

An act Providing for Stronger Deterrence & Special Protection Against Child Abuse, Exploitation, & Discrimination and for other purposes

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

agency that helps countries provide proper access to healthcare, nutrition, functional education, clean drinking water, sanitation, & other basic services

WOMEN’S RIGHTS

• Convention on the Political Rights of Women

• Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

• Philippine Commission on Women

• Anticatcalling Ordinance of Quezon City

• RA 11313

Convention on the Political Rights of Women

allowed women voting and election rights

Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

guaranteed equal rights to acquire property

Philippine Commission on Women

in charge of policy making aims to promote and strengthen equality and justice for women

Anticatcalling Ordinance of Quezon City

penalizes guilty offenders of street level sexual harrassment on women

RA 11313

• Safe Streets and Public Spaces Act (Anti-Bastos Law)

• authored by Sen. Risa Hontiveros

• Addresses abuse committed to women including members of the LGBTQ

• Signed into law by former Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte

pwd rights

• Proclamation 1870

• National Council for the welfare of Disabled Persons

• Batas Pambansa 344

Proclamation 1870

designated July as National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation month

National Council for the welfare of Disabled Persons

takes care of the concerns of PWDs

Batas Pambansa 344

Accessibility Law, required buildings to have a ramp

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS

• RA 8371

• self - governance and empowerment

• Social justice and human rights

• cultural integration

RA 8371

• The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997

• covers the Ancestral Domain rights of indig. ppl