EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 27
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 27 - EDUCATION
TO MAXIMIZE RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
WHEREAS, the past regime was
characterized by numerous violations of human rights;
WHEREAS, to gain greater respect for human rights and to deter
violations thereof, there is an urgent need to educate the people about
these rights, the serious consequences of, and the avenues of redress
from violations thereof;
WHEREAS, the Presidential Committee on Human Rights, primarily tasked
to assist the President in the discharge of her duty to respect and
foster human rights, has recommended that the system of formal and
informal education be utilized for the aforesaid purposes.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do
hereby order:
1.
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports shall include the study
and understanding of human rights in the curricula of all levels of
education and training in all schools in the country, adapting the
scope and treatment of the subjects or courses on human rights to the
respective educational levels. It shall likewise initiate and maintain
regular programs and special projects to provide venues for information
and discussion of human rights including the utilization of informed
education and other means to stress the importance of respect therefor.
2. The Civil
Service Commission shall include in the qualifying examinations for
government service basic knowledge on human rights.
3. In the
formulation and creation of courses or subjects on human rights to be
included in the school curriculum or other educational or training
programs to implement and carry out the directives herein including the
writing, printing and publication of textbooks and other reading
materials relative thereto, the ministry or agencies concerned shall
consult and coordinate with the Presidential Committee on Human Rights
and shall at all times emphasize the following principles on human
rights, and the laws and rules governing the same, to wit:
a)
All persons are born with human dignity and inherent rights. No one
losses his dignity and these rights regardless of what he or she may
have done and no matter what his or her political convictions may be.
b) Torture,
other cruel and degrading treatment or punishment, unexplained or
forced disappearances and extra-legal executions (salvaging) are
crimes, punishable by Philippine laws under any and all circumstances.
c) Anyone may,
by himself or on behalf of a person arrested or detained, question the
legality of the arrest and detention before the appropriate court.
d) The Bill of
Rights as adopted in toto in the Provisional Constitution under the
Proclamation No. 3 dated March 25, 1986 or in the New Constitution when
ratified, including the jurisprudential ramifications thereof.
e) Prisoners
shall be treated with humanity. Juvenile prisoners shall be kept, if
the jail will admit of it, in apartments separate from those containing
prisoners of more than eighteen years of age; and the different sexes
shall be kept apart. The visits of parents and friends who desire to
exert a moral influence over prisoners shall at all reasonable times be
permitted under proper regulations.
f) Convicted
prisoners may be assigned to work suitable to their age, sex and
physical condition.
g) Articles
124 to 131, 235, 245, 267 to 269 of the Revised Penal Code.
h) Republic
Act No. 857.
i) Rules 113
and 126 of the 1985 Rules on Criminal Procedure.
j) The Rules
for the Treatment of Prisoners as adopted by the Department (now
Ministry) of Justice on January 7, 1959; the Ministry of Justice Manual
on the general rules, policies and operations principles adherent to in
the prison service.
4.
If found appropriate and practicable by the Ministry of Education,
Culture and Sports, after considering the needs and capabilities of the
students in the different educational levels, subjects or courses
dealing with international conventions, agreements, declarations or
covenants on human rights which were ratified by the Philippines or to
which it is a signatory, shall be included in the curricula.
5. This Order
shall be initially implemented within the framework of the budget of
the MECS for 1986. As far as practicable, the funds required therefor
shall be drawn from its appropriations for policy formulation, program
planning, standard development and instructional materials
developments.
The Ministry of Budget and
Management, after consultation with the MECS, shall recommend to the
President for her approval the necessary changes or modifications in
the expenditure items in the 1986 budget of the MECS to accommodate the
expenditures to be incurred in the implementation hereof.
Subsequent expenditures in the
implementation hereof for the succeeding years shall be accordingly
incorporated in the annual budget of the MECS.
6. This
Executive Order shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 4th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-six.
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