MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 315, December 15, 1967 ]
DECLARING 1968 AS INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CREATING A PHILIPPINE COMMITTEE TO UNDERTAKE PREPARATIONS FOR ITS PROPER OBSERVANCE.
WHEREAS, the United Nations General Assembly, upon the recommendation of the Human Rights Commission, adopted Resolution 2081 (XX) on December 20, 1965, declaring 1968 as International Year for Human Rights in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
WHEREAS, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been the instrument of the highest importance for the protection and promotion of the rights of individuals and the furtherance of peace and friendship throughout the world;
WHEREAS, member states have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms; and
WHEREAS, the Philippines has always been and will ever be a militant champion of the cause of human rights and the fundamental freedoms, and it is but fitting and proper for our country and people to express and show their advocacy for them in more substantial adequate, and effective forms;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the year 1968 as the International Year for Human Rights and create the following Committee to undertake preparations for its proper observance:
Honorable Narciso Ramos
Secretary of Foreign Affairs . |
Honorary Chairman |
Honorable Carlos P. Romulo
Secretary of Education . . . . |
Chairman |
Honorable Rafael M. Salas
Executive Secretary . . . . . . . |
Vice-Chairman |
Honorable Rafaelita H. Soriano
Assistant Secretary for United Nations
Affairs and International Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Executive Secretary |
Honorable Marcelo S. Balatbat
Secretary of Commerce and Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
| Honorable Paulino J. GarciaSecretary of Health . . . |
Member |
Honorable Blas Ople
Secretary of Labor . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Honorable Gregorio Feliciano
Administrator, Social Welfare
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Honorable Edmundo Reyes
Commissioner of Immigration |
Member |
Miss Luisa Insangan
Acting Executive Secretary
United Nations Association of
the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Mr. Rafael Ledesma
Chairman, Civil Liberties Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Honorable Amante Bigornia
President, National Press Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Mr. Francisco Trinidad
General Manager, Philippine
Broadcasting System . . . . . . |
Member |
Miss Helena Z. Benitez
President, Philippine Women’s
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
Mrs. Geronima Pecson
Member of the Board of Directors
Philippine Association of University
Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1
Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary
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