The CHRP fully supports the enactment of laws that ensure the enjoyment of all the people of their right to adequate food. This proposed measure seeks to showcase the right as the right of all to have physical and economic access at all times to adequate food and the state’s obligation to protect, promote, and fulfill such right.
On 28-30 October 2019, the Commission on Human Rights co-organized an international conference on human rights at Subic Bay Freeport Zone, together with the Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Association for Inter-cultural Development, and Tebtebba. The event was attended by representatives
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) joins the entire Muntinlupa Police Station in mourning the untimely passing of Senior Police Officer III (SPO3) Manuel Escalona on Tuesday, 10 May 2022. We laud SPO3 Escalona and other law enforcers and those
Malugod na tinatanggap ng Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) ang ulat ng United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, sa sitwasyon ng karapatang pantao sa Pilipinas. Bilang pambansang institusyon ng karapatang pantao ng bansa, tinatawag namin
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commends the signing of the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) law on October 18, 2024, by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Republic Act No. 12028, also known as the “ARAL Program Act,” aims to
The Commission on Human Rights denounces the murderous assault against Atty Bayani Dalangin on 28 February 2020 by unknown gunmen inside his office in Talavera Town, Nueva Ecija. The increasing number of violent attacks against and extra-judicial killings of lawyers
The Commission on Human Rights commends the House of Representatives for voting unanimously to approve House Bill No. 5869 which would expand the coverage of Republic Act (RA) No. 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act and give
