The Office of the Ombudsman has directed three former officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict to respond to a complaint filed in connection with their statements against a lawyers’ group in 2020.
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Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - Malacanang denounced on Thursday a global campaign to impose sanctions on President Rodrigo Duterte and other ranking Philippine officials for allegedly violating human rights. In a statement on Tuesday, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) announced that it has launched a campaign to impose sanctions on ranking officials who allegedly masterminded or took part in human rights violations. It is the first time any rights group is campaigning to enforce the Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the US government to sanction human rights violators globally by banning entry into the US and freezing their assets. Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar dismissed the move as an effort to publicly "name and shame the Philippines before the international community." "It is baffling how it has come up with allegations of human rights violations of the Philippine government w
Malacañang has assailed the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) after it called for global Magnitsky sanctions on the so-called "Dirty Dozen" of rights violators in the country including President Duterte.
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