Disability_Rights_in_the_Philippines
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1987 National Constitution (present).<br />
Cont<strong>in</strong>ued…<br />
Article 13: Social Justice and Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Section 1. “The Congress shall give highest priority to<br />
<strong>the</strong> enactment of measures that protect and enhance<br />
<strong>the</strong> right of all <strong>the</strong> people to human dignity, reduce<br />
social, economic, and political <strong>in</strong>equalities, and remove<br />
cultural <strong>in</strong>equities by equitably diffus<strong>in</strong>g wealth and<br />
political power for <strong>the</strong> common good.”<br />
Section 13. . “The State shall establish a special<br />
agency for disabled person for <strong>the</strong>ir rehabilitation,<br />
self-development, and self-reliance, and <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
<strong>in</strong>tegration <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> ma<strong>in</strong>stream of society.”<br />
General Discrim<strong>in</strong>ation Laws of <strong>the</strong> Philipp<strong>in</strong>es
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