[10.20.08] Catholics can support the RH bill in good conscience
We, individual faculty of the Ateneo de Manila University, call for the immediate
passage of House Bill 5043 on “Reproductive Health and Population Development” (hereafter
RH Bill) in Congress. After examining it in the light of Philippine social realities, and informed
by our Christian faith...<read more>
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The People's Policy Agenda on Population and Human Development
Population and Development
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The Human Development Legislator
"Discrimination Against Women"
PLCPD dedicates this issue of the HDL to the reflection of the Philippines’ commitment to the CEDAW. Compliance seems more and more...
"The Cost of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in the Philippines"
Although CARP derives its existence not from an appropriation fund or from an augmentation fund, but from the Constitution itself, logic tells us that without funding, it is just like having a car without fuel.
This policy brief intends to discuss a problem that seems not to be given much attention; when institutional care becomes the primary option for orphaned or abandoned Filipino children rather than foster care.
After nearly 20 years of implementation, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is touted as the world’s longest agrarian undertaking—much ballyhooed for its intent and very much maligned for its loopholes and shortcomings.
Population and Reproductive Health What Every Legislator Should Know
If you really want to serve the people by addressing their needs, you must know that sound population and reproductive health programs and services are among their basic rights and foremost needs.
Completing the Family Planning Equation to Achieve Contraceptive Self-Reliance Seeing that fertility management is a crucial, if not the primary, means to carry out family planning, it is therefore important to keep track and assess other elements of the equation...
The Human Development Legislator
Talkpoint factsheets
People Count
A Primer on CARP Extension
