Dean Diokno’s Human Rights Class

1st Sem AY2020-21

TIMELINE
 So far, we’ve taken up the following:
• Sept. 3, 2020 > Your Human Rights
• Sept. 10, 2020 > DLA
• Sept. 17, 2020 > DLA and How Marcos Killed Justice
• Sept. 24, 2020 > PH Human Rights instruments (Malolos Constitution, 1935
Constitution, 1987 Constitution)
• Oct. 1, 2020 > International Bill of Rights (UDHR, ICCPR, ICESCR)
• Oct. 8, 2020 > International Bill of Rights; HRC cases of Francisco Larrañaga
and Leon Rouse
• Oct. 15, 2020 > Mandela Rules (On the Treatment of Prisoners)
• Oct. 22, 2020 > Group presentations on PH prisons
• Oct. 29, 2020 > No class (MT exam week for non-graduating students)
• Nov. 5, 2020 > The International Criminal Court
• Read the Rome Statute, available at:
• https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf
• Nov. 12, 2020 > The Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law,
Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity
• Read R.A. 9851
• Nov. 19, 2020 > The Writs of Habeas Corpus, Amparo and Habeas Data
• Read:
• Rule 102, Rules of Court
• Dizon v. Eduardo, G.R. No. L-59118 March 3, 1988
• The Rule on the Writ of Amparo, A.M. No. 07-9-12-SC, 25 September
2007, as amended
• The Rule on the Writ of Habeas Data, A. M. No. 08-1-16-SC, January 22,
2008
• Secretary of Defense v. Manalo, G.R. No. 180906, 7 October 2008
• Razon v. Tagitis, G.R. No. 182498, December 3, 2009
• Annotation to the Writ of Amparo, available at:
• http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/Annotation_Amparo.pdf
• Nov. 26, 2020 > The Anti-Torture Act The Anti-Enforced Disappearances Act
• Read:
• R.A. 9745;
• R.A. 10353.
• Dec. 3, 2020 > Reserved for make up, etc.
• Dec. 10, 2020 > Forum on Human Rights
Basis of Grades:
 
• 33% - Class work (individual and group work, participation, etc.)
• 33% - Class video on the Equality Line
• 33% - Class Forum on Human Rights