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Ensuring Gender-Responsive Interventions to COVID-19 and the New Normal Including Ensuring Prompt, Effective, and Survivor-Centered Response to All Forms of Gender-Based Violence
Read the Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2020-01 of the Commission on Human Rights and the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Ensuring Gender-Responsive Interventions to COVID-19 and the New Normal Including Ensuring Prompt, Effective, and Survivor-Centered Response to All Forms of Gender-Based Violence. Download file here
Strengthening the Commission on Human Rights as a National Human Rights Institution Under the Constitution
Strengthening the Commission on Human Rights as a National Human Rights Institution Under the Constitution The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), constitutionally mandated to protect and promote human rights, owes its very existence to the 1987 Constitution. The recommendations contained in this position paper on strengthening the CHR as […]
CHR unveils Diokno Memorial; calls for the defense of human rights
20 September 2017 PRESS RELEASE CHR unveils Diokno Memorial; calls for the defense of human rights Quezon City—On 21 September 2017, Thursday, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will commemorate the triumph against dictatorship and the affirmation of freedom, democracy, and human rights through the unveiling of the Ka Pepe Diokno Memorial at the grounds […]
Responses to the Call for Inputs to the Thematic Report to the HLPF on the Protection and Realization of Children’s Rights in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
CHR updated the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Component 1: Cross-cutting considerations to support implementation of the 2030 Agenda in a way in which the rights of the child are protected and realized. DOWNLOAD FILE HERE
Responses to Call for Inputs: General Assembly Resolution 70/166: Effective Promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, and Addendum to the CHRP Inputs
CHR updated the Indigenous and Minorities Section of the OHCHR on the status of the comprehensive anti-discrimination bills as well as the situations of indigenous peoples and minority groups. DOWNLOAD FILE HERE
Inputs to UNESCO – Promoting Human Rights Training for Media Professionals and Journalists
CHR reported its capacity building activities for media professionals and journalists, as well as provided recommendations for further human rights education training. CHR inputs were posted on the OHCHR website together with other stakeholders’ reports. DOWNLOAD FILE HERE