Human Rights

CJ: Avoid violation of human rights to help arrest HIV/Aids (IPP Media)

16 May 2008

Violation of human rights has been cited as one of the factors that cause Hiv/Aids. It is against that backdrop that the Chief Justice, Augustino Ramadhani, has challenged legal practitioners to defend human rights.

De Lima assumes post as chief of human rights panel (Manila Standard Today)

16 May 2008

ELECTION lawyer Leila de Lima was sworn into office yesterday as the new chairman of the Commission on Human Rights and vowed to immediately work on improving the commission’s monitoring “as the world [is] keenly watching us.�

Human Rights Fiesta; a Traditional Parish (Zenit News Agency)

16 May 2008

ROME, MAY 15, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Sixty years ago, during the U.N. General Assembly meeting in December 1948, some 48 nations voted to approve the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.