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The People's SONA, a protest held by progressive groups including the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, was held along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. They voiced out issues faced by various sectors, including inflation, workers’ salary, the South China Sea dispute, and human rights violations. [18] [19]
Although various human rights abuses were attributed units throughout the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) during the Marcos dictatorship, the units which became particularly notorious for regularly violating human rights abuses were the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) [6] under B.Gen Ignacio Paz; the ...
September 23, 1972. Keywords. politics, martial law. Status: Repealed. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Proclamation No. 1081. Proclamation No. 1081 was the document which contained formal proclamation of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos, as announced to the public on September 23, 1972. [1] [2]
The Commission on Human Rights ( Filipino: Komisyon ng Karapatang Pantao) ( CHR) is an independent constitutional office created under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, with the primary function of investigating all forms of human rights violations involving civil and political rights in the Philippines. [ 2]
The Taft Commission, also known as the Second Philippine Commission ( Filipino: Ikalawang Komisyon ng Pilipinas ), was established by United States President William McKinley on March 16, 1900, following the recommendations of the First Philippine Commission, using presidential war powers while the U.S. was engaged in the Philippine–American ...
The Diliman Commune was a nine-day uprising led by the students, faculty members, and residents of the University of the Philippines Diliman, [ 1][ 2][ 3] on February 1–9, 1971 — about a year after the events of the First Quarter Storm and about a year before Marcos' eventual declaration of Martial Law. [ 4][ 5] It began as a planned ...
Thousands of protesters gathered again on November 30, Bonifacio Day, at the People Power Monument in Quezon City. On December 10, about 11,000 protesters marched on the streets in Capiz, Iloilo, Bacolod, Aklan, and Cebu, commemorating Human Rights Day.
The concept of "human rights," in the context of the Philippines, pertains mainly (but is not limited) to the civil and political rights of a person living in the Philippines. [ 4] Human rights are a justified set of claims that set moral standards to members of the human race, not exclusive to a specific community or citizenship. [ 5]