Purificacion Quisumbing

Who is Purificacion Quisumbing?

Purificacion Valera Quisumbing was a Filipino human rights activist who served as the Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights from 2002 to 2008.

In March 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council re-elected Quisumbing to a second, three-year term on the council's advisory committee.

Quisumbing died on December 1, 2011, at the age of 77. She was survived by her husband, Leonardo Quisumbing, a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and their 2 daughters.