Violence against women and children
"Violence against women and children" Human Rights Day is observed every 10th day of December of each year. This ...
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Gross violations of IP and children rights
"These incidents deserve attention from the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples." The baseless arrest in Cebu last ...
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How Dare You?
“How dare you?” were the words Scandinavian environmentalist Greta Thurnberg asked before the world leaders when she spoke at the ...
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The unjust detention of Leila de Lima
"Widespread or systematic imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty in violation of the rules of international law may constitute ...
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Killing the rule of law
"The Opinion then continued to narrate how the state twisted the law in depriving Leila de Lima of procedural and ...
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War on drugs protects lives–Palace
The Duterte administration’s “unrelenting” crusade against illegal drugs and criminality has protected “the lives of the innocent law-abiding citizens of ...
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Human rights advocates in Asia under attack
By Andrew Gilmour In February, hundreds of Filipino participants in the peace process, environmental activists and human rights defenders were ...
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Human rights are forever
On Saturday, December 10, we celebrate the 68th year anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ...
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