THE COMMISSION on Human Rights said that the Philippine National Police and Department of Education should work together to address violence in schools.

The CHR made the statement following the stabbing of a student by another student in Culiat High School in Quezon City.

“The Committee on the Rights of the Children, in its General Comment No. 14 (2013), underscored the need to satisfy the State’s obligation by appropriately integrating and consistently applying the framework of the child’s best interest in all matters that may directly or indirectly impact them,” the commission said in a statement.

The Philippine National Police earlier said that there is no uptrend in the number of school violence.

Col. Mary Grace Mandayag of the PNP’s Officer of Women and Children Protection Center said cases of violence in schools are few.

The CHR pledged its support for the DepEd’s Rights-Based Education Framework for Philippine Basic Education, which seeks to inculcate in students an understanding of their own and others’ inherent human rights.