CONSTITUTION MADE SIMPLE
WOMEN Section 14 1. Protection of working women ............................................ 301 ROLE AND RIGHTS OF PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATIONS Sections 15-16 1. Role and rights of people’s organizations ......................... 302 HUMAN RIGHTS Section 17 1. The Commission on Human Rights................................... 303 2. Reasons for creation of the Commission ........................... 304 Sections 18-19 1. Powers and functions of the Commission......................... 306
3. Rights of workers .................................................................. 290 4. Principle of shared responsibility ....................................... 292 5. Reciprocal rights of labor and enterprises......................... 292 AGRARIAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES REFORM Section 4 1. Undertaking an agrarian reform program ........................ 293 Section 5 1. Planning, organization, and management of the program ............................................................................ 295 Section 6 1. Disposition of other natural resources and of agricultural estates ............................................. 295 Section 7 1. Rights of subsistence fishermen and fishworkers ............ 296 Section 8 1. Investment incentives to landowners ................................ 297 URBAN LAND REFORM AND HOUSING Section 9 1. Undertaking a continuing urban land reform and housing program..................................................... 298 Section 10 1. Ejectment and resettlement of urban or rural poor dwellers................................................................... 299 HEALTH Sections 11-13 1. Protection and promotion of the right to health .............. 300
ARTICLE XIV — EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE, AND SPORTS EDUCATION Section 1
1. Meaning of education........................................................... 307 2. Goals in giving priority to education, etc.......................... 307 3. Rights of all citizens to quality education to be promoted and protected ................................................ 308 Section 2 1. Complete, adequate, and integrated system of education ..................................................................... 310 2. Relevant system of education ............................................. 311 3. System of a free high school and tertiary education........ 311 4. Compulsory elementary education for all children of school age..................................................... 312 5. Natural right of parents to rear their children.................. 312 6. System of scholarship grants, etc. ...................................... 313 7. Different learning systems................................................... 313 8. Training in civics, vocational efficiency, and other skills ................................................................ 314 9. K to 12 basic education program ........................................ 314
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