CHR orients secondary students on human rights laws

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 4 (PIA) -- The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) region 2 is now penetrating secondary schools for its massive information drive and orientation seminar on human rights related laws, especially on the concerns of children and women.

Lou Lopez, information officer, said education campaigns to students on human rights advocacies are very necessary to scale up awareness on their constitutional rights and to instill the proper actions to report to prevent the abuses, violations, and violences against an individual.

She added that high school students already need to know and understand the laws in relation to their rights as they are already vulnerable to abuses.

She explained majority of the enlisted cases of abuses related to the rights of children and women involved individuals within the teenage bracket. She also noted that majority of them do not know how to report to the authorities the violence because of lack of knowledge on their rights and on how to seek assistance from authorities.

“There is already a list of schools to where we soon conduct series of orientation seminar in the province of Cagayan and also Batanes. We also try to penetrate other provinces in the future,” Lopez stated.

Lopez stated that they have already conducted series of orientation seminars in four high schools in the province of Cagayan to include the Northern Philippine Academy in Gattaran town; Pattao National High School, Buguey; Ipil National High School and Comprehensive High School, both in Gonzaga town.

Parts of the topics discussed during the seminar were violence against women, anti-child pornography, anti-trafficking in persons, special protection for Filipino children and child abuse law. (TCB/OTB/PIA-2)


(2012-02-04/pia)