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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Second Regular Session
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S.B. No.
Introduced by Senator Loren Legarda
AN ACT
PROHIBITING RELIGIOUS OR RACIAL PROFILING AGAINST INDIGENOUS
CULTURAL COMMUNITIES
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assernbled:
SECTION I. Title
Profiling Act of 2008.
- This act shall be known as the Anti- Religious and Racial
SECTION 2. Declaration ofpolicy. It is hereby declared as the policy of the State
to value the dignity of every human person and to guarantee full respect for human
rights.
SECTION 3. Racial Profiling, as defined. The term means the practice of relying
to any degree, on race, ethnicity, and religious affiliations in selecting individuals to
subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities, except when there is
trustworthy information, relevant to the locality and timeframe, that links persons of a
particular race, ethnicity, religion or national origin to an identified criminal incident or
scheme and such other prohibited acts as enumerated in this Act.
SECTION 4. Prohibited Acts. The following shall constitute religious and racial
profiling and shall be deemed punishable under this Act:
(a) To subject a person to unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and degrading search
because of his manner of clothing or by reason of his religion, color, creed or
ethnic identity;
(b) To discriminate a person who is applying for a job just because of his name,
religion or ethnic background;
(c) To disallow an individual from entering any establishment such as
restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and other places of similar nature or to
subject him to discrimination or harassment in relation to other passengers in
buses, taxis, ship or airplanes because he happens to don a peculiar attire
such as wearing of veil, turban or any other traditional costumes or because
of his color, creed, belief and ethnicity;
(d) To employ religious characterization such as words of religious import in
print and broadcast media when geographic, political, socio- economic or
other distinction might be more accurate; and
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