Kabuhayan, Karapatan, Katarungan: Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyer ( NUPL ) and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayn ( BAYAN ) with the support of the People’s struggle committee of the University Student Council of University of the Philippines- Diliman invite you to “Kabuhayan, Karapatan, Katarungan”A Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:Violations and Remedies on August 28,2008 from 8: 30 to 11: 30 a.m. at the Malcolm Hall ,College of Law University of the Philippines, Diliman ,Quezon City. The forum will mainly tackle the “access to justice” problems encountered by victims of ESC rights violations and the proposed solutions, including amendments to the Rules of Court.

Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who recently spearheaded the Supreme Court’s National Workshop on identifying roadblocks to “access to justice” on ESC rights issues, will be the Keynote Speaker.

The different people’s organization representing the poor and marginalized sectors will formally present to the Chief Justice their papers detailing recommended actions towards the protection of economic, social and cultural rights and granting victims of ESC rights violations access to judicial remedies and other mechanism for redress.

The forum is important, not only because it will give the people the opportunity to directly present access to justice proposals to the Chief Justice, but also because it is rare that the various sectors come together to present their sectoral papers and studies on ESC rights violations