CEBU City may have been the first in the country to enact a policy against discrimination last year, but the absence of implementing rules and regulations (IRR) hampers its implementation.
The commission’s creation is stated in City Ordinance 2339 passed in October last year. The ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, disability, health status, sexual orientation and gender, ethnicity and religion.
The anti-discrimination ordinance was supposed to be create Anti-Discrimination Commission of Cebu City one month after the ordinance’s approval in October last year, but until now this has not yet been done.
Magda Visitacion, founding president of Transgender Colors, Inc., called for the law’s full implementation in the City Council hearing on the ordinance yesterday. /Correspondent Jose Santino S. Bunachita