Commission On Human Rights Philippines (disambiguation)

• Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)

  Also: CHR (common abbreviation), Komisyon sa Karapatang Pantao (Filipino name), Commission on Human Rights (official English name)

  The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is an independent constitutional office of the Philippines mandated to investigate, on its own or on complaint, all forms…

• Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)

  Also: CHR — the standard Philippine abbreviation, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines — the international-style styling, The constitutional Commission on Human Rights — the usage distinguishing it from the United Nations commission of the same 1946–2006 name

  The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is the independent constitutional office that the 1987 Constitution ordains in Article XIII, Section 17 — "There is hereby…

• Human Rights in the Philippines

  Human rights in the Philippines are guaranteed primarily by the Bill of Rights of the 1987 Constitution and the country's ratifications of international instruments including…

• Department of Justice (Philippines)

  Also: DOJ (common abbreviation), Kagawaran ng Katarungan (Filipino name), Justice Department (media shorthand)

  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is the principal law agency and legal counsel of the Philippine government, responsible for the prosecution of crimes, administration of…

• Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997

  Also: IPRA of 1997, Republic Act No. 8371, Ancestral Domain Law (informal usage)

  The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371) is the principal Philippine statute recognizing, protecting, and promoting the rights of indigenous cultural…

• Human Security Act of 2007

  Also: Republic Act No. 9372, RA 9372, Human Security Act

  The Human Security Act of 2007 is the short title of Republic Act No. 9372, the Philippines' first statute to define terrorism as a distinct…

• Human Rights Victims Claims Board

  Also: Human Rights Violations Victims Claims Board, HRVCB, Human Rights Victims' Claims Board

  The Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB) was the quasi-judicial body created by Republic Act No. 10368, the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act…

• National Democratic Front of the Philippines

  Also: NDFP, NDF, National Democratic Front

  The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is a revolutionary united-front coalition of the Philippine communist movement, founded on April 24, 1973, when a…

• Amnesties in the Philippines

  Also: presidential amnesty, general amnesty, amnesty proclamation

  Amnesties in the Philippines are the exercises of the presidential amnesty power under Article VII, Section 19 of the 1987 Constitution, which authorizes the President…

• People of the Philippines v. Santos, Ressa and Rappler

  Also: The Maria Ressa cyberlibel case, The Rappler cyberlibel case, The Keng case — after private complainant Wilfredo Keng

  People of the Philippines v. Santos, Ressa and Rappler (Criminal Case No. R-MNL-19-01141-CR, Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 46) is the cyberlibel prosecution arising…

• Commission on Appointments

  Also: Commission on Appointments of the Philippines, CA (standard abbreviation in Philippine political reporting)

  The Commission on Appointments (CA) is the constitutional commission of the Philippines that confirms, rejects, or withholds action on certain appointments made by the President…

• Presidential Commission on Good Government

  Also: PCGG — the universal abbreviation, Good Government Commission — descriptive shorthand in English-language reporting, The sequestration commission — colloquial reference to its best-known power

  The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is the Philippine government agency created to recover the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by Ferdinand E. Marcos, his immediate…

• Freedom of Expression in the Philippines

  Also: Free speech in the Philippines, Freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, Article III, Section 4

  Freedom of expression in the Philippines is the constitutional guarantee set out in Article III, Section 4 of the 1987 Constitution, which provides that "no…

• Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act

  Also: IPRA, IPRA Law, RA 8371

  The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (officially the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997, Republic Act No. 8371) is the principal Philippine statute that recognizes, protects,…

• National Commission on Indigenous Peoples

  Also: NCIP, NCIP Philippines, Pambansang Komisyon para sa mga Katutubong Pilipino (Filipino rendering)

  The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is the primary Philippine government agency responsible for protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous cultural communities and…

• Armed Forces of the Philippines

  Also: AFP, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas (Filipino)

  The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is the unified military organization of the Philippines, comprising three major services — the Philippine Army, the Philippine…

• Anti-Torture Act of 2009

  Also: Republic Act No. 9745, RA 9745, Anti-Torture Law

  The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9745) is a Philippine law that penalizes torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment…

• Hague Joint Declaration

  Also: The Hague Joint Declaration

  The Hague Joint Declaration is the framework agreement of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National…

• Safe Streets and Public Spaces Act

  Also: Safe Spaces Act, Bawal Bastos Law, Republic Act No. 11313

  The Safe Streets and Public Spaces Act (Republic Act No. 11313), popularly called the Bawal Bastos Law, is a Philippine statute signed on 17 April…

• Republic Act No. 11313

  Republic Act No. 11313, the Safe Spaces Act, is a Philippine law penalizing gender-based sexual harassment in streets and public spaces, online, and in workplaces…

• J.B.L. Reyes

  Also: Jose B.L. Reyes, Jose B. L. Reyes, Jose Benedicto Luis Luna Reyes

  J.B.L. Reyes (born Jose Benedicto Luis Luna Reyes; August 19, 1902, Manila – December 27, 1994, Quezon City) was a Filipino jurist, civil-law scholar, and…

• Salvador P. Lopez

  Also: Salvador Ponce Lopez, Salvador Lopez, S. P. Lopez

  Salvador P. Lopez (Salvador Ponce Lopez; May 27, 1911, Currimao, Ilocos Norte – October 18, 1993, Manila) was a Filipino writer, diplomat, and educator whose…

• Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710)

  Also: Republic Act No. 9710, RA 9710, Magna Carta of Women of 2009

  The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710), signed in 2009, is the principal Philippine law comprehensively defining and protecting the human rights of…

• Mamamayang Liberal

  Also: ML, Mamamayang Liberal party-list, Liberal Party party-list

  Mamamayang Liberal (abbreviation ML) is the party-list organization of the Liberal Party of the Philippines, founded in 2024 to give the mother party a sectoral…

• Bayan Muna

  Also: Nation First

  Bayan Muna (literally "Nation First") is a Philippine party-list organization founded on September 25, 1999, contesting elections under the party-list system as the electoral wing…

• Bagong Alyansang Makabayan

  Also: BAYAN, Bayan, New Patriotic Alliance

  The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN; literally "New Patriotic Alliance") is the largest progressive multisectoral alliance in the Philippines, founded in May 1985 in the final…

• Proclamation No. 216

  Also: Proclamation 216, Martial law in Mindanao, 2017 Mindanao martial law proclamation

  Proclamation No. 216 is the proclamation by which President Rodrigo Duterte, on May 23, 2017, declared a state of martial law and suspended the privilege…

• Mendiola Massacre

  Also: Black Thursday, Mendiola massacre of 1987, Mendiola Massacre of January 22, 1987

  The Mendiola Massacre was the killing of protesting farmers by state security forces on Mendiola Street, San Miguel, Manila, on January 22, 1987, at about…

• MABINI (lawyers' organization)

  Also: MABINI, MABINI — the acronym by which the group is almost always cited, Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc. — the corporate styling recorded by the ICJ mission

  The Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., universally known by its acronym MABINI, is a Philippine lawyers' organization of the martial-law era,…

• Wigberto Tañada

  Also: Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr. — the full styling of the public record, Ka Bobby — the familiar address carried in his own styling, Bobby Tañada — the journalistic short form

  Wigberto Tañada (Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr.; born August 13, 1934, Gumaca, Tayabas, now Quezon) is a Filipino lawyer and politician, the son and…

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