Timeline on Human Rights as laid down by Justice Puno in his dissent to

Republic v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 104768, July 21, 2003

• Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were elected

1970

• (Jun. 1) Constitutional Convention convened

1971

• (Jan. 17) Constitution went into effect

1973
• (Feb. 23-25) EDSA Revolution
• (Feb. 25) Aquino issued Proclamation No. 1
• recognizing that sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them
• (Mar. 25) Proclamation No. 3
• Declaring National Policy to Implement the Reforms Mandated by the People, Protecting their Basic Rights, Adopting

1986 a Provisional Constitution, and Providing for an Orderly Transition to Government under a New Constitution

• (Feb. 2) 1987 Constitution was ratified and became effective

1987
Timeline on Human Rights as laid down by Justice Puno in his dissent to
Republic v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 104768, July 21, 2003
• (July 4) American Declaration of Indepence
1776 • "xxx all men are created equal xxx endowed with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"

• French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens

• Thereafter, the phrase rights of man gradually replaced natural rights in the latter period of the eighteenth century, thus removing the theological assumptions of medieval
1789 natural law theories

• The Katipunan was founded

1892

• Malolos Constitution
• Bill of Rights was copied from the Spanish Constitution
1898

• Constitution of Biak-na-Bato
• all but four articles patterned after Cuban Constitution of Jimaguayu
1897 • Freedom of Religion, Right of Association, Freedom of the Press, Freedom from imprisonment except by virtue of an order issued by a competent court

• (Apr. 7) Pres. McKinley's Instruction to the Second Philippine Commission

• "(u)pon every division and branch of the government ofthe Philippines . . . must be imposed these inviolable rules"
1900 • Almost literal reproductions of the First to Ninth and Thirteenth Amendments of the US Constitution

• Philippine bill of 1902

1902

• Jones Law (Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916)

1916

• Tydings-McDuffie Law (Philippine Independence Law)

• Constitution to be drafted should contain Bill of Rights
1934

• (Feb. 8) Constitution was approved by Convention

• (Feb. 19) Signed by the Convention
• (Mar. 23) President Roosevelt affixed signature
1935 • (May 14) Ratified by majority of Filipino voters

• Atlantic Charter
• where Churchill and Roosevelt stated that complete victory over their enemies is essential to decent life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human
1942 rights and justice, in their own land as well as in other lands.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was published by the United Nations Organization
1948

• (Dec. 16) United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Optional Protocol to the Civil and Political Rights

1966 • providing for the mechanism of checking state compliance to the international human rights instruments such as through a reportorial requirement among governmentst