Statement of CHR Executive Director, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the Department of Education’s reiteration of its Gender-Responsive Basic Education Policy
The Department of Education (DepEd) stresses through several policy issuances that the center of the Philippine basic education is the learner, particularly the child. The recent adoption of the Rights-Based Education (RBE) Framework for Philippine Basic Education underscores the duty of schools, learning centers, and offices to respect, protect, fulfill, and actively promote the full […]
Statement of CHR Focal Commissioner on Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equality, Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit, on the President’s veto on the budget for DOTr’s gender responsive restroom program
The Commission on Human Rights, as the country’s Gender Ombud, is disappointed with the veto on the Gender Responsive Restroom Program of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), which we consider a key gender and human rights item in the General Appropriations Bill of 2022. Under the Magna Carta of Women or Republic Act No. 9710, […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty, Jacqueline Ann de Guia, in support of a gender-responsive legislation protecting women and girls during pandemics and disasters
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) lauds the filling of Senate Bill No. 2372, also known as the proposed Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Pandemic and Disaster Management Act. Senate Bill No. 2732 recognises the gendered impacts of pandemics and other health concerns, emergencies, and disasters to women and girl-children, and seeks better protection for them through […]