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Human Rights in The Philippines

This advocacy video aims to raise awareness of and encourage action against human rights violations in the Philippines. It highlights issues like the oppression of minorities, women, and the disabled through examples like the summary execution of Kian de los Santos and the prevalence of abusive labor practices like endo contracts that deny workers protections. The video seeks to convince officials to address these problems and empower victims while mobilizing viewers to create change.

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Human Rights in The Philippines

This advocacy video aims to raise awareness of and encourage action against human rights violations in the Philippines. It highlights issues like the oppression of minorities, women, and the disabled through examples like the summary execution of Kian de los Santos and the prevalence of abusive labor practices like endo contracts that deny workers protections. The video seeks to convince officials to address these problems and empower victims while mobilizing viewers to create change.

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Making an advocacy video

- for whom and for what purpose was the film shot?
- who do we want to influence with our message? For whom is it intended?

- Purpose:
- causing emotional empathy
- to convince the officials
- Video can be a tool for mobilizing people to take action, empowering victims of human
rights violations, and promoting reconciliation in affected communities.
- provide an action component to the video and make the viewer feel like they can create
change

https://www.newtactics.org/video-advocacy/video-advocacy
https://www.thecampaignworkshop.com/advocacy-video
http://www.harm-reduction.org/blog/how-make-video-advocacy-sharp-and-effective

Human rights in the Philippines


- pertains to the concept, practice, and issues of human rights within the Philippine
archipelago.
- The concept of "human rights," in the context of the Philippines, pertains mainly (but is
not limited) to the civil and political rights of a person living in the Philippines by
reason of the 1987 Philippines Constitution
- Human rights are a justified set of claims that set moral standards to members of
the human race, not exclusive to a specific community or citizenship.
- Membership in the human race is the sole qualification to obtain these rights.
- Human rights, unlike area-specific conventions of international laws (e.g. European
Convention on Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), are universally justifiable as it pertains
to the entire human race, regardless of geographical location.

- Human rights allow a person to live with dignity and in peace, away from the
abuses that can be inflicted by abusive institutions or individuals. But the fact
remains that there are rampant human rights violations around the world.
(https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/114698-human-rights-philippines)
- The rights of Filipinos can be found in Article III of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.
Also called the Bill of Rights, it includes 22 sections which declare a Filipino citizen’s
rights and privileges that the Constitution has to protect, no matter what.
- Criminals or those in conflict with the law are still protected by rights as indicated
in many legal documents such as the Philippines’ Criminal Code and UN’s
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

- In 2002, the CHR issued an advisory after the debate sparked by Davao City
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte's statement during a crime summit in Manila. He said
extra-judicial or summary killings remain "the most effective way to crush
kidnapping and illicit drugs."

- However, according to the CHR, summary or extra-judicial executions of


criminals or suspects are prohibited under the Philippine Constitution as these
violate several sections such as Article III Section 1, which states that “no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of
law nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws."

- It added that summary executions as a violation of human rights are more explicit
in Article II of Section 11, which provides that “the State values the dignity
of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights."

- In 2011, the Philippines ratified the Rome Statute which established the
International Criminal Court. Under this treaty, every Filipino, including the
President, can be tried by this Court which has jurisdiction over crimes against
humanity. The treaty provides that when murder is “committed as part of a
widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population,
with knowledge of the attack,” it becomes a crime against humanity.

http://kimberlyyusay.blogspot.com/
https://hronlineph.com/resources/domestic/article-iii-bill-of-rights/
https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/114698-human-rights-philippines
http://opinion.inquirer.net/96518/extrajudicial-killings-crime-humanity

Who are abused?: Minorities, women and girls, the disabled


What’s happening?: oppression, Job Inequality, denied citizenship and freedoms

Minorities: Kian De Los Santos


- "What we're trying to prove here is kung totoo na summarily executed (if he was really
summarily executed). 'Yun ang case dito, hindi 'yung kung kanino siya runner (That is
the case, not whoever he was supposedly a drug runner for). Even a criminal has his
own right," Albayalde said.
- Summarily Executed: an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and
immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial.
https://www.rappler.com/nation/179382-kian-delos-santos-drug-runner-probe-ejk-angle-ncrpo-
albayalde
https://www.rappler.com/nation/180781-nbi-complaint-kian-delos-santos-murder-planting-
evidence

Labor Activists: Endo and joblessness still prevail


- “neoliberal policies, such as contractualization, remain in full swing and women
remain victims of rights violations [by the police and the military].”
- De Jesus said Duterte should immediately act on his promise to end the so-called “endo
(end of contract)” scheme, where companies routinely terminate their workers before
they hit their sixth month of service and become entitled to employee benefits
under regularization.
- De Jesus claimed that 16.22 million women or half the 32.5 million total population of
working women have remained shut out of the labor force.
- “The lack of sufficient productive employment for women is made worse by surging
prices of basic commodities, lack of decent housing, and the privatization of social
services,” she said.
- Herbert Docena: 'Contractualization actually enables capitalists to pay workers
less for the same work, stunt economic development, and therefore harm
the interests of all Filipinos – including of capitalists themselves'
- They suggest that contractualization – or the practice of hiring workers as
“contractuals” rather than as “regular” workers so as to avoid giving them the
benefits that they are legally mandated to receive – allows capitalists to
increase their profits, hire more workers, contribute to economic growth and
therefore benefit all Filipinos.
- The labor force especially the proletariat sees endo as a tool of the capitalist
to manipulate and exploit the vulnerability of laborers. The laborers, as an
offshoot of prolonged unemployment and uncompetitive nature, would rather
accept a below par employment contract without full benefits enjoyed by a
regular worker than have no paid employment.
- labor code prohibits labor-only contracting which frees employers from providing
workers with benefits (e.g. health and social security). It is only legal as long as
contractualization does not fall within the category of “labor only contracting,” or a
company only having contractual employees.
-
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/915024/labor-activists-tell-duterte-endo-joblessness-still-prevail
https://sprout.ph/blog/top-3-ways-the-end-of-endo-will-affect-businesses-in-the-philippines/
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/03/18/1682230/employers-warn-job-losses-endo-order
https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/147934-docena-why-contractualization-bad-for-
everyone
http://www.philstar.com/business/2016/05/27/1587537/contractualization-pros-and-cons
https://www.kalibrr.com/advice/2016/08/what-is-endo-and-how-does-it-work/

Abuse on women
http://pcw.gov.ph/law/republic-act-9262

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