Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Negotiated for the establishment of the Joint Expert Working Group on the Right
to Education composed of 2 members from the UNESCO Committee on
Conventions and Recommendations, and 2 members of the CESCR. This joint
working group is the first formal partnership between a UN specialized agency
and a treaty body, created for the purpose of dealing with human rights issues
related to concerns common to bothin this case, the right to education. This
working group continues to date, with Prof. Dandan as a member.
Conducts workshops on treaty body reporting writing as well as on national and
regional follow-up action to the concluding observations of the CESCR.
Researches on human rights focused on human rights for economic, social and
cultural development on the grassroots level, especially for those living in poverty
and exclusion.
Actively promotes the concept of human rights as an instrument of peace, unity
and harmony towards nation building through inter alia
- personal engagement with States parties to assist them in
understanding how best to comply with their treaty obligations and
advising them on possible follow-up action on their respective
Concluding Observations;
- working within the framework of human rights in community
development, with indigenous peoples in the Philippines; and,
- the teaching and development of a tertiary level curriculum on human
rights in development.
Studies in developing indicators and benchmarks on economic, social and
cultural rights.
Current Positions
National Project Manager
Human Rights Community Development Project in three Philippine
Indigenous Peoples Communities,
a bi-lateral project of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
and the New Zealand Human Rights Commission
Adjunct Faculty
Masters in Development Management Program
Asian Institute of Management
Makati, Philippines
Selected Publications
Dandan, Virginia B. Monitoring, Supervision and Dialogue in the
Human Rights System, Challenges for the UN Development
Agencies. SCN News. No.18 pp.34-38. Geneva: WHO, 1999.
Dandan, Virginia B.A View Beyond Beijing. Symposium on Human
Rights in the Asia-Pacific RegionToward Partnership for the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Tokyo: Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, 1995.