Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the recent Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
The Commission on Human Rights respects the recent Supreme Court decision in Falcis v. Civil Registrar General on marriage equality. The Supreme Court ruled that the said petition be dismissed due to ‘lack of standing, violating the principle of hierarchy of courts, and failing to raise an actual, justiciable controversy.’ Despite the decision, we find hope that the Court recognised the long history of the struggles of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other gender and sexual minorities (LGBTQI) for equality, including freedom from being discriminated for their choice of relationship. One with the cause, we encourage the LGBTQI community and its allies to press on in spite […]
ニュービリビッド刑務所における全裸検査と体腔内検査に対する最近の苦情について、CHRの広報担当者、ジャクリーン・アン・デ・ギア弁護士の声明
The Commission on Human Rights on Monday, 6 January 2020, received a letter complaint personally filed before our office in Quezon City regarding strip searches made at the New Bilibid Prison (NDP). In her account, Jimmylisa Badayos details how she underwent a strip search, despite feeling degraded, just so she could visit her partner, Calixto Vistal, on 29 December 2019 in the NBP’s Maximum Security Compound. As such, we remind the government, especially the officers and personnel at NBP and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, to strictly enforce its own guidelines in conducting body searches for jail visitors, most especially in ensuring that such searches are reasonable and […]