Comprehensive Mental Health Act

Position Paper

A Supplemental position paper on the mental health bill focusing on the role of CHR to investigate. Likewise, the CHRP wishes to comment and clarify its proposed duties and functions under the proposed measure.

The CHRP recommends that other agencies including DOH could be tapped to lead in the inspection of such places. The CHRP believes that the responsibility to ensure human rights is not for the Commission to undertake alone.

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Position Paper on Senate Bill No. 14: “An Act Adjusting the Amount Involved, Value of Property or Damage on Which a Penalty is Based, and the Fines Under Act. No. 3815 as Amended, Otherwise known as the Revised Penal Code”

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Position Paper on the Anti-Elder Abuse Bill

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Amendment of Republic Act No. 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment of 1995 (House Bill Nos. 194, 508, 2591, 2932, 3691, 4822, and 5213)

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Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration Fifth thematic session: “Smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons and contemporary forms of slavery, including appropriate identification, protection and assistance to migrants and trafficking victims”

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Strengthening the Commission on Human Rights as a National Human Rights Institution Under the Constitution

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PNP Modernization Bill (Supporting the Strengthening of the PNP Towards Community and Human Rights Based Policing)

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