There is likewise no protocol for the augmentation of personnel from other regions when conflict or
disaster affects CHRP employees in affected regions.16
9. Orientation-Workshop on Monitoring, Reporting and Responding to Victims of Grave Child Rights
Violations in Situations of Armed Conflict (GCRVSAC). On September 15-16, 2016, the Child
Rights Center (CRC) of the Commission on Human Rights conducted a training on Monitoring,
Reporting and Responding to Victims of GCRVSAC for thirty five (35) CHRP central and regional
personnel. The participants include ten (10) lawyers and eleven (11) investigators appointed as
regional focal persons on children, eight (8) information officers from Mindanao Regional Offices
and six (6) central office personnel involved in responding and monitoring cases of Child Rights
Violations.
10. The objective of the workshop was to equip CHRP lawyers and investigators with specialised
knowledge and skills to become effectively involved in monitoring, reporting and responding to
cases of GCRVs in Situations of Armed Conflict, and enhance coordination between CHRP Central
and Regional Offices to facilitate timely submission of data/reports to the United Nations Monitoring
and Reporting Mechanism (UN MRM) and Government of the Philippines Monitoring, Reporting
and Response System (GPH-MRRS) on Grave Child Rights Violations in Situations of Armed
Conflict (GCRVSAC).
11. While the activity was fully organized by the CHRP, child rights advocates and partners from
UNICEF, ICRC, AFP and CWC took part as resource persons during the two-day training. The IEC
materials distributed during the same workshop were developed by UNICEF for MRM and the
Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) for MRRS.17
12. For the years 2017 and 2018, the CHRP, through the funding grant of UNICEF intends to hire
four (4) personnel for the period of six (6) months in order to focus on the monitoring, reporting and
responding to the cases of GCRVs in the areas of displacement in Iligan, Lanao del Sur, Lanao del
Norte and Marawi. Two (2) staff complement will each be assigned in the CHRP Region X SubOffice in Iligan City and RHRC respectively.
13. The Commission on Human Rights is resolute and assertive in its campaign against the use
and/or association of children in armed conflict in all its public education and information programs,
projects and activities for all stakeholders. Such that in the regular conduct of our advocacy
activities both in the central and regional offices, inputs on child soldiering are tackled on topics
such as the rights of children (with UNCRC as the framework); International Humanitarian Law and
RA 9851; The United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacements (UNGPID) and Child
Labor topics.
14. The Commission on Human Rights as a National Human Rights Institution and as the Gender
Ombud under the Magna Carta of Women undertook a Joint Monitoring Mission titled
“Human
Rights Monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons: Locating the Experiences of Internally Displaced
Women, Children and LGBTI.” The Joint Monitoring Mission ran from 1 to 5 July 2017 with the
CHRP Joint Monitoring team composed of officers from CHRP Central Office, CHRP-X and CHRPXII.
15. The Joint Monitoring Mission was duly coordinated with the Regional Human Rights
Commission of the ARMM and the National Emergency Operation Center in Iligan City. The Mission
covered evacuation centers in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, and Lanao del Sur and aimed to monitor
the situation and conditions of Internally Displaced Persons and specifically locating the
16
Reported by CHRP Region VIII.
Compendium of Resource Materials for Monitoring, Reporting and Response System on Grave Child Rights
Violations in Situations of Armed Conflicts.
17