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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 120

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 120 - DESIGNATING THE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OR HIS DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE AS ADDITIONAL MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CREATED UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 101, SERIES OF 1988

WHEREAS, there is a need to include the Secretary of Foreign Affairs or his duly authorized representative as additional member of the Human Rights Committee created under Administrative Order No. 101, Series of 1988, so that the government's human rights policies and programs may be properly presented to the international community; 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. Sec. 1 of Administrative Order No. 101, Series of 1988, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby created a Human Rights Committee, to be composed of:

The Secretary of Justice as Chairman

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs or his duly authorized representative, Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, the Presidential Legal Counsel, a representative of the Department of National Defense, a Senator and a Congressman as the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may wish to designate and two representatives of private human rights groups to be nominated by said groups and appointed by the President, as Members. 

Sec. 2. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.

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