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APPENDICES
APPENDIX A� -universal Declaration CHAPTER I
of Human Rights ............................ 150
INTRODUCTION
APPENDIX B - International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights ................... 156
I. A. RATIONALE
APPENDIX C - International Convention on
Economic, Social and The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed
Cultural Rights .. :........................-... 175 the commencement of the World Programme for Human Rights
Education on January 1, 2005, following the UN Decade for Human
APPENDIX Rights Education in 1995-2004.
D ..:. Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Pursuant to that, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
Against Women (CEDAW) ............... 185 of the Philippines issued Resolution Nos. A2007-028 and A2007-
029 urging the Commission on Higher Education and law schools
APPENDIX E - Convention on the Rights in the Philippines to offer Human Rights in the Philippine Law
of the Child (CRC) .......................... 198 curriculum.

APPENDIX F - Convention Against Torture Subsequently, on December 19, 2011, the United Nations
and Other Cruel, Inhuman General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the United Nations
and Degrading Treatment Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training.
or Punishment (CAT) ....................... 220 Article 3 of the declaration states that Human Rights education
and training "concerns all ages" and "all levels" including pre­
APPENDIX G - International Convention on school, primary, secondary and higher education.
the Protection of the Rights More than sixty (60) years since the adoption of the Universal
of All Migrant Workers and Declaration of Human Rights and the ratification of several human
Members of their Families ................. 234 rights treaties by the Philippines, as well as the consequent
enactment of domestic human rights legislations along the way, the
APPENDIX H - International Convention for appropriate and formal education and training on human rights
the Protection of All Persons laws in the country are still slacking. There are still law schools
from Enforced Disappearance............ 272 that do not offer Human Rights Law as a separate subject, and
majority of university courses do not include the subject in their
APPENDIX I - Rome Statute of the curricula. As a result, we have professionals who are only semi­
International Criminal Court ............ 291 literate in human rights. Many do not have an inkling of what
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is all about. Millions
BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................ 378 of Filipinos are not aware of the international human rights
conventions that were ratified by the Philippines by virtue of which
obligations arise. Whenever we get some international attention
for human rights abuses, people tend to think that it is just those
"bully superpowers" interfering in our affairs again. Many people
in the government do not quite comprehend the concept of "State
Responsibility." Whenever these government people are taken to

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