Purificacion Quisumbing, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights (2002–2008), died from multiple myeloma she was 77.

Purificacion Valera Quisumbing  was a Filipino human rights activist who served as the Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights from 2002 to 2008 died from multiple myeloma she was 77..^[1]

^{(c. 1934 – December 1, 2011)}

In March 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council re-elected Quisumbing to a second, three-year term on the council's advisory committee.^[2]
Quisumbing died on December 1, 2011, at the age of 77.^[1] She was survived by her husband, Leonardo Quisumbing, a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and their 2 daughters.


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