Bangsamoro law calls for human rights body

If President Rodrigo Duterte will fulfill his promise that a Bangsamoro Basic Law will be passed during his tenure, he will have to throw his support to another human rights body: the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission.

This is because Article 9, Section 7 of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law provides for the creation of the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission “which would be an independent and impartial office within the Bangsamoro that will have the same powers and functions as the national Commission on Human Rights and as may be provided for by the Bangsamoro Parliament to ensure the protection and promotion of the human rights of all the Bangsamoro inhabitants.”