CEBU CITY— More than 80 participants composed of civil society organizations and non-government organizations from Central and Eastern Visayas regions for the 5th of a series of an Inter-Island Regional Consultation for the 4th Philippine Human Rights Plan (PHRP4), August 5-6 at the Marco Polo Plaza in Cebu City, being coordinated by the PHRCs in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of the UN and International Organizations.
The Philippine Human Rights Plan (PHRP) is a State commitment under the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action reached at the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993.
Under the supervision of the Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat (PHRCS), the development of the PHRP4 has become doubly important as it is a major global pledge of the Philippines before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, conveyed by the Executive Secretary in December 2023 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
The PHRP4 has been designed to address crucial continuing and emerging human rights issues and concerns encompassing civil and political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights; and the rights of vulnerable sectors, such as women, children, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, and persons deprived of liberty, among others.
By way of a human rights lens, the PHRP4 will reinforce strategies in government’s pursuit of relevant programs and projects that will uplift standards of living, quality of life, and human dignity as envisioned under the administration’s call for a Bagong Pilipinas.
Updates on the development of PHRP4
The development of the PHRP4 is now in the nationwide consultation stage where the draft plan is being vetted with human rights stakeholders representing non-government organizations, civil society representing sectors and community, and local government units in the various regions.
This consultation is a platform for NGOs and civil society groups that comprise the Philippines’ vast and enabled civic space to come together and share their diverse perspectives and insights, ensuring that the PHRP4 shall be inclusive, representative, and effective.
The next consultations are scheduled on August 19-20 for Davao City for Northern and Southern Mindanao; September 2-3 for General Santos City for Central Mindanao and on September 16-17 for Cotabato City for BARMM.
CVOs, NGOs feedbacks
Various CVOs and NGOs representatives aired their feedbacks and issues on the realities of harassment, myriad human rights violations, red tagging, human rights cases in various courts that have been there for number of years or no solutions at all. (Photos: MBCNewman)
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