By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA - Bohol
Human rights education goes on the air starting Monday as Bohol peace advocates use the potent radio as tool for its ongoing advocacies.
Soon to hit the air lanes beginning December 10, Dennis Calunia of the Diocesan Social Action Center representing the Church, Alfredo Amora representing the media and Yvette Bede Matabalan of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) would be program hosts.
The program stakes the 7:00 to 8:30 pm timeslot at station DyTR AM.
The launching also coincides with the observance of the International Human Rights Week and in fact is set on the same day the whole world celebrates the International Human Rights Day.
"The program would basically be focused on human rights advocacies in line with the Comprehensive Agreement for the Respect of Human Rights and the International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), says Matabalan of the PPOC, during an interview.
This is also a further cascading of the initiatives of the Local Monitoring Board (LMB) to evaluate on the observance by both the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines / New People's Army / National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) to the expressed agreements signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the NDF since 1992-1995, she adds.
But the program would also look into the four substantive agendas in the Hague Convention which covers human rights and international humanitarian law, socio-economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms and the cessation of hostilities, adds Bohol peace advocates.
Bohol is one of the country's only three provinces with an instituted LMB to check on the issues raised against CARHRIHL, Dr. Asteria Estoreon admits during the Kapihan sa PIA Thursday.
The LMB, according to her is a localized board whose main job is to gather and report complaints of atrocities otherwise seen as contrary to the CARHRIHL.
All of the above details hope to usher in the resumption of peace talks leading to a final end of the conflict that ahs been going on for more than three decades.
In Bohol, one of the key issues relating to the CARHRIHL is the reported human rights abuses by both parties and the employment of minors in the war.
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