The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Council (NTF-ELCAC) on Wednesday, May 26, failed to stop the House Committee on Human Rights from investigating the alleged illegal arrest of Lumad students and teachers during a supposed “rescue operations” in Cebu City last February.. At the in
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Senator Grace Poe is pushing the passage of a bill that would declare a day in the month May as “National Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Phobias for Persons of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression or Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)”.
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In the Senate Bill No. 2213 she filed recently, Poe sought the recognition of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBT+) community on May 17 of every year in the Philippines.
It was on May 17, 1990 that the World Health Organization (WHO) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder, after decades of campaign from activists, doctors and medical practitioners.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 21) The House Committee on Human Rights approved on Thursday a comprehensive anti-discrimination bill covering a wide array of protected attributes.
The committee approved the consolidated version of the unnumbered substitute bill during a virtual hearing.
It seeks to ban discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, language, religious belief or expression, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth and other status.
Prior to the bill’s approval, the committee discussed in detail the bill’s provisions on discrimination, inciting others to commit acts of discrimination, as well as protection against abuses by state and non-state actors.