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The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It was founded in 1974 by Sen . Jose W. Diokno , [ 5 ] Lorenzo Tañada , [ 7 ] J.B.L. Reyes , [ 4 ] and Joker Arroyo [ 8 ] during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos . [ 9 ]
Regarded as the "Father of Human Rights" in the country, [3] he served as a Senator of the Philippines, Secretary of Justice, chairman of the Presidential Committee on Human Rights (forerunner of the Commission on Human Rights), and founder of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), the premier group of Filipino human rights lawyers.
Pro bono publico (English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term traditionally referred to provision of legal services by legal professionals for people who are unable to afford them.
Chel Diokno was born on February 23, 1961, in Pasay City as the eighth of ten children to human rights lawyer Jose W. Diokno, who later became a Senator, and Carmen "Nena" Icasiano. [5] He is the great-grandson of Ananías Diokno , a leader of the Visayans during the Philippine–American War , and the grandson of Ramón Diokno , a nationalist ...
Mintz Levin's attorneys represent a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and devote pro bono hours in the service of many different causes—such as human rights, civil rights, natural disaster legal assistance. [18] [19] In 1989, the firm established a Domestic Violence Project, which has since become its signature pro bono initiative ...
She once hosted, pro bono, an hourly legal segment on the radio station Crossover 105.1, called “Legal Log.” She has written for the Sunday Times, The Manila Times, SAVVY Magazine, K Magazine, the Business World, and the People’s Tonight. She has a legal segment on the ABS-CBN morning show, Umagang Kay Ganda, every Monday morning. She ...
Public interest law refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor, marginalized, or under-represented people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (pro bono publico), often in the fields of civil rights, civil liberties, religious liberty, human rights, women's rights, consumer rights, environmental protection, and so on.
Neri Javier Colmenares (Tagalog pronunciation: [haˈvjeɾ kɔlmɛˈnarɛs], born December 4, 1959) is a Filipino legislator, human rights lawyer and activist. He was an associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D. in law on "The Writ of Amparo and the International Criminal Court."