# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chito-gascon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:35:39.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chito-gascon"
name: "Chito Gascón"
slug: "chito-gascon"
description: "Jose Luis Martin Cosgayon Gascon, also known as Chito Gascon, was a Filipino lawyer, civic organizer, and human rights activist. In 2015, he was appointed by then President Benigno S. Aquino III as the Chair of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines serving a term from 2015 to 2021."
tagline: "Philippine lawyer, civil organizer and human-rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JOSE_LUIS_MARTIN_C._GASCON.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-05-26"
deathDate: "2021-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.435712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "شيتو جاسكون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chito_Gascon"
    title: "Chito Gascon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chito_Gascon"
    title: "Chito Gascon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chito_Gascon"
    title: "Chito Gascon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chito_Gascon"
    title: "Chito Gascon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17371080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump