The Presidential Human Rights Committee, together with government Executive agencies and civil society organizations, is conducting area consultations for the formulation of the 2nd National Human Rights Action Plan of the Philippines, as defined in Administrative Order No. 163, series of 2006.
With Executive Eduardo Ermita as chairman, the area consultation is a problem-solving mechanism designed to successfully overcome human rights issues and challenges through the joint efforts of government agencies as the so-called rights duty-bearer and the people as the rights claimholders.
The consultation will put in place the much-needed public policies, programs, and resources that will have incremental effect in progressively improving the human rights situation in the country.
The cluster area consultation aims to instill national ownership of the second NHRAP in as many stakeholders as possible. Through the NHRAP, concrete measures will be identified to ensure that human rights protection and promotion becomes a matter of policy that will transcend politics characterized by administrations that come and go.
All participants, stakeholders and sectors are urged to actively participate in the human rights plan drafting to highlight the “importance the Philippines gives in the promotion and protection of human rights shared by the entire family of man. (PIA)