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Tag: Human rights

  • Girl Defenders alliance commitment to pass bill.JPG
    Categories News

    Child marriage a human rights violation that should stop, say advocates

    By Klaire Ting  |  Oct 10, 2020 12:02 PM

    Advocates launched an online rally against child marriage in time for the celebration of International Day of the Girl on October 11.

    child marriage, girl defenders, Human rights

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    UN body offers technical aid to Duterte admin to improve PH human rights situation

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Oct 08, 2020 1:50 PM

    The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) is offering “technical assistance and capacity-building” to the Duterte government to help improve the human rights situation in the Philippines.

    Human rights, Philippines, UN OHCHR

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Andanar binaluktot ang pahayag ni UN SecGen Guterres

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 05, 2020 8:02 PM

    Niligaw ni Communications Secretary Martin Andanar ang publiko nang sinabi niya na “pinaalalahanan” ni United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres ang organisasyon na huwag maging biktima ng mga samahan na “gumagamit ng karapatang pantao” upang isulong ang kanilang “hidden agenda.”

    andanar, guterres, Human rights

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Andanar twists UN SecGen Guterres’ human rights call

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 05, 2020 2:16 PM

    Communications Secretary Martin Andanar misled the public when he said United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres “reminded” the body not to fall prey to organizations who “use human rights” to forward a “hidden agenda.”

    andanar, guterres, Human rights

  • Human Rights advocate Aileen Bacalso accepts the  2019 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights award..JPG
    Categories Commentary

    Filipina human rights worker, one of the 15 recipients of the Franco-German Human Rights Award

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Dec 18, 2019 1:36 PM

    Last Dec. 12, two days after the universal observance of International Human Rights Day, human rights advocates gathered at the Novotel in Quezon City to applaud the awarding to Aileen Bacalso, the Franco-German Ministerial Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

    Human rights

  • Cover of At the School Gate.jpg
    Categories Arts & Culture News

    Us against Them

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Dec 16, 2019 11:26 AM

    At the School Gate, authored by Sandra Nicole Roldan and illustrated by Nina Martinez, covers all the rights people need to uphold. It opens with a 15-year-old protagonist Ella Cortez trying to meet a deadline for a school paper and goes on to follow her as her aunt fetches her at the gate and breaks some somber news—the arrest of Ella’s father, an NGO worker.

    Human rights

  • Flavie, Rachel Fortun - Human rights defenders.jpg
    Categories News

    Duterte’s drug war worsens from war vs. poor to war vs. human rights — rights group

    By Jil Danielle Caro  |  Sep 24, 2019 5:32 PM

    PhilRights said there is enough evidence to conclude that the drug war “has resulted in gross and interrelated human rights violations that extended to the families and communities of those who have been killed.”

    EJKs, Human rights, War on drugs

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    Categories News

    CHR, rights groups oppose threat of Martial law in Negros

    By JIL DANIELLE CARO  |  Aug 02, 2019 5:25 PM

    “What we are trying to avoid is the normalization of measures reserved for extraordinary cases concerning national safety,” CHR Spokesperson Jacqueline Ann de Guia said.

    CHR, Human rights, NEGROS

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    Categories News

    Locsin warns of “far-reaching consequences” as PH rejects UNHRC resolution to report on PH human rights situation

    By VJ Bacungan  |  Jul 12, 2019 5:53 PM

    Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin warned on July 11 of “consequences; far reaching ones” as he rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution to report on human rights in the Philippines next June.

    Human rights, locsin, Philippines, UNHRC resolution

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Andanar wrong on human rights

    By VERA Files  |  Aug 23, 2018 6:08 PM

    He falsely claimed mobile phones are ‘a basic human right.’

    fact-check, Human rights, Martin Andanar

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