l REPORTS ON THEMATIC DISCUSSIONS Group -'I ^J 1 ReporL Education, lnformation and Communication Rapporteur: Epifania GaraY Problematized issue Review of the AFP manual on Human Riqhts and IHL and the Rule of Law. Priority: A standardized curriculum and manual on IHL for all levels. Fields: Barangay as a mechanism where the will be launched or anchored. For the AFP the lowest mechanism is the detachment peace and IHL developmentteams in communities, PTV 4 and social media sites. The PHILJA is aboui the concerns of the IHL course of judges in the Phllippine Judicial Academy. The CPH CARHRIHL primer was considered; though it is a political documenl it is importantihatthe CPH and CPP-NDF would both know about respect for human rights and IHL Who will be responsible Rttthe participating agencies during the discussion will participate, where gestions they will be comfortable, but it was highlighted that the CHR will initially convene the first meeting of the Observations/Su technical working group [tWC), maybe on the first quafter of 2013. Gen. Tutaan: lf possible, we would like to add an education, information and communication component to We considered research in relation to the development mainstream IHL to the public, to the community. The of materials on lHl- like comics, primers and other materials that we wish to produce. We are planning to come up with story lines about IHL and give copies to a radio or television networh but an issue tarqet market and target groups mentioned were mostly the security sector, judges, prosecutors and educating or giving information to ihem. What we have to tell the people on the ground, the barangay, the sitio, the tribal leader is that these are their rights as guaranteed by RA 9851 and IHL itself So was raised about the costing for ihe infrastructure in putting up an information or lC[C system. g if somebody threatens them, whether a state or nonstate actor, they will know their rights by virtue of IHL CHR Graduated Curriculum are being violated. Curriculum education for the police and military is in place but it merged, Human Rights Education and That is a suggestion on our part because what we're the IHL We have to consider doing this separately. Re the participating agencies, there were considerations doing in community organizing for security and developmen! thals what we're undertaking as far as IPSP Bayanihan. Unfortunately when we hit the from the academe like the PUB and CHED was also mentioned but there was no CHED representative. children sector and the women sector as far as 1325 is concerned, Karapatan calls it militarization. proceedings of the Second National Summit on lnternational Humanitarian Law in the Philippines lL December 2012 tr