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Human Rights and Public Finance in the Philippines
Recent Trends in Public Finance in the Philippines
Revenues
Expenditure
Deficit
Public Debt
Recent Trends in Human Rights in the Philippines
Right to Life
Right Against Torture and lll-Treatment
Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
Right to Education
Right to Adequate Food
Right to the Highest Attainable Standard
of Health
The Right to Adequate Housing
The Right to Water and Sanitration
The Right to Work
The Rights of Women
The Rights of the Child
The Rights of lndigenous Peoples
The Rights of MigrantWorkers and Members
of Their Families
The Right to Development and Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
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HRBAto Public Finance
Primacy of the Human Person
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Support for the Realization of Human Rights Without
Discrimination
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Maximum Available Resources
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Obligation to Mobilize and Devote the Maximum
Available Resources to Progressively Realize
Human Rights
Avoidance of Retrogressive Measures
Satisfaction of the Minimum Essential Levels of
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