42 HUMANITY AMIDST CONFLICTS Considering that International Humanitarian Commission on Human Rights. Shesaid that Lawis so closely tied to human rights, the Commission has put up an IHL Divisionin the HR Education and Research Office. Representatives from various government ICRC has always been ready to partner with CHR and to share its expertise on IHL since the program was conceptualized.For instance, ICRCagreed to co-organize with CHRthefirst andnon-governmentoffices were called on stage National Training of Police Policy-makers in to receive their respective copies of the book. 1987 andthefirst NationalTraining ofMilitary Director Ana Elzy Ofreneo introduced the book. She said that these Curricula are a work Trainors on HR-IHLin 1989. She thanked most especially the im progress. These curricula are subjected to Committee on Education and Training of the review National Inter-Agency Chamber of Human periodically to determine its responsiveness to the demandsof relevant stakeholders and to the crying needs ofthe times. Rights (CET-NIACHR),* Also, the curriculum has to keep pace with set of Graduated Education Curricula on HR domestic and international developments. and JHLforthepillars ofthe Philippinejustice CET-NIACHRdeveloped in 1995 thefirst There was no model for HREeitherfor the system. Needlessto say,all the otherpillars of military or for the police and other arresting and investigating personnel. In 1988, CHR produced its General Human Rights Education Curriculum. The main initial bases in crafting justice have their own Graduated Curricula on this original CHR-HRE curriculum were the 1988 CHR General HRE Curriculum as well 1986 Presidential Memorandum Order No. 20 as the ICRC’s POI on IHL. HR-IHL. The curriculum writers coming from the CHR, DND, DOJ, DILG andits attached agencies reviewed and extensively used the and the 1978 UNESCO document. M.O. 20, After 14 years of use, the first Graduated issued by former President Corazon Aquino Curriculum on HR-IHL Education for the on July 4, 1986, defined the mandatory Military was reviewed andrevised in May 2009 content of human rights education for by all the military officers who are in-charge arresting and investigating personnel. of the career courses and the education and The i978 final document of the International Congress on the teaching of Human Rights defined the 10-point Guiding Principles and Considerationsin the Teaching of HumanRights. training ofthe land,air and naval forces as well as the military academy. All their outputs are now incorporated in the validation edition. This book is such validation edition. thanksto the International Committee of the She also expressed her thanks to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Red Cross (ICRC) for their indefatigable whofunded the project in May 2009, and to assistance, cooperation, consistent and warm the Swiss Embassythat gave fundsto print the support to all education initiatives of the validation edition. Director Ofreneo expressed her deepest *The National Inter-Agency Chamber of Human Rights or NIACHR was jointly and severally organized by the Commission on HumanRights, the Departmentof Justice, the Department of National Defense, and the Department of the Interior and Local Government, by virtue ofthe MemorandumofAgreementthatthey signed in Malacanang on 7February 1995. CET-NIACHRperforms thefollowing six key results areas: curriculum development,faculty development, materials development, special events management, planning andprogramming, and monitoring and evaluation.