PAHRA Advocacy Work

Since its founding in 1986, PAHRA serves as an advocacy center and has been committed to work for the respect and promotion, protection and fulfillment of human rights:

We are committed to work for the recognition and realization of all human rights embodied in the international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Declaration on the Right to Development, and the Universal Declaration on the Rights of the Peoples.   We support the implementation by the International Committee of the Red Cross of International Humanitarian Law embodied in Geneva Conventions and their additional Protocols. 

As we pursue our militant quest for national sovereignty and respect for human rights, we declare:

That we shall promote and defend human rights in all their dimensions civil, political, social, economic and cultural, including developmental and environmental concerns, and that we equally address the rights of women, children, indigenous peoples and the Moro people in international human rights instruments;

 

Campaigns on Civil and Political Rights which call on both the State and non-State Entities to respect and promote human rights.

That we shall promote a strong awareness and commitment for human rights in Philippine society and shall strengthen democratic forces to fight and resist all forms of repression that prevent the people from exercising their basic rights;

That we shall exert all efforts to uphold the supremacy of the civilian authority and institutions over the military;

That we shall work to seek justice and indemnification for all victims of human rights violations.

 

Campaigns on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which asserts the Rights-based Approach to development as a framework for good governance.  Under which are the following thematic issues:

That we shall continue to resist all forms of discrimination, intervention, local or foreign, which undermines the sovereignty of our people, subvert our right to means of subsistence and the rights to self determination and continue to resist those who preempt the dawning of genuine peace, justice and democracy.