Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 02:36:43 +0000
The 2018 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report saying human rights crisis intensified in the Philippines must be taken “constructively,” rights body said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:43:56 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has made human rights defenders “targets for harm, harassment or even liquidation,” Senator Leila De Lima said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:45:35 +0000
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she was abused by her family and feared for her life if deported back home left Thailand on Friday night for Canada, which has granted her asylum.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:38:04 +0000
Guatemala’s Supreme Court has ruled to block President Jimmy Morales’ decision to unilaterally end a U.N. anti-corruption commission.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:31:41 +0000
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday urged the Philippine government to heed a United Nations special rapporteur’s call to end the attacks against human-rights defenders in the country, notably those critical of the Duterte administration.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 23:09:32 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has branded human rights groups as enemies of the state, accusing them of seeking to destroy the government.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:38:58 +0000
The Commission on Human Rights has urged the Philippine National Police to “completely do away with profiling.”
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 06:50:50 +0000
Malacañang has rejected the call of a group of psychologists for a “scientific and humane approach” in tackling drug addiction in the country.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:03:59 +0000
South Korea’s human rights watchdog said a hospital’s choice to deny a medical checkup to an HIV-positive person was discriminatory.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 02:31:24 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — After another controversial remark by President Duterte, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) urged the administration to be careful in issuing remarks particularly those that may undermine government efforts in protecting Filipino workers overseas.
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