Manila, Feb. 19 -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday said it has entered into a joint undertaking with civil society groups to promote community-based dialogues on human rights.

In a news release, the DOJ said the Community-Based Dialogue (CBD) Project on Human Rights Promotion and Protection was formally introduced to its Human Rights Office (HRO) on Feb. 14 by the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), a coalition of legal resource non-governmental organizations that adhere to alternative or developmental law, along with representatives of Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany (HSF), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and the Philippine National Police-Human Rights Affairs Of...