UP IHR conducts capacity building workshops on freedom of association for security sector, trade unions The UP Institute of Human Rights (UP IHR), together with the Foundation for Integrative and Development Studies, International Labour Organization (ILO), and European Union, conducted the “Capacity Building Workshop for Security Sector and Trade Unions.” This two-day workshop held on 21 and 22 October 2021 formed part of the ILO’s Safe and Decent Work in Ecozones Project. Day 1 (Basic Principles, Guidelines for State Agents, and Mechanisms of Freedom of Association) Mr. Khalid Hassan, the Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines, opened…

UP College of Law Assistant Professor Michael Tiu, Jr. is also Academic Assessment and Development Officer, Head of the International Criminal Law Program of UP IILS, and Consultant on Business and Human Rights of UP IHR UP College of Law Assistant Professor Michael Tiu, Jr. clinched the Top 3 prize in the HCCH Approach Essay Competition organized by the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the 1996 Child Protection Convention. The winners were announced by HCCH Secretary General Dr. Christophe Bernasconi during the HCCH Approach Global Event last 19 October 2021. The…

On 7-8 October 2021, the UP Institute of Human Rights (IHR), together with the Foundation for Integrative and Development Studies, International Labour Organization (ILO), and European Union in the Philippines conducted two capacity building workshops on freedom of association (FoA) and mechanisms that address FoA issues for the Department of Labor and Employment, Philippine Economic Zone Authority, employers, and employees, under the ILO’s Safe and Decent Work in Ecozones project. Among the participants were government represented by the Department of Labor and Employment and the National Labor Relations Commission, the PEZA-Mactan Economic Zone Authority, employers including the Employers Confederation of…

Dean Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan, II and Associate Dean Solomon F. Lumba U.P. College of Law How can you add gold to the sunset, said Justice Holmes. Sometimes, words just aren’t enough. But even though the deepest feelings often seem unremarkable when expressed in language, there are still those precious moments when we just have to take a chance and hazard to articulate what is best said unspoken in the hope that the words will echo on long after our voices have been silenced. Yesterday, 11 October 2021, one of those times came to pass when the sun set on…