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Investigate PH, in its report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR), said that the Philippines’ response to human rights violations is “insufficient and even illusory.”
It said its report examined 49 illustrative cases of human rights violations that occurred sometime between 2020 and 2021.
“With the drug war, the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the July 2020 passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), and the Philippine government’s militarized response to COVID-19, the perpetration of human rights violations by state forces has become more institutionalized, orchestrated, and entrenched,” it said.
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Global mission finds local remedies for rights victims in PH illusory
Progressive groups stage a protest condemning the recent case of police brutality. (Photo by Altermidya)“Domestic remedies have been ineffective at providing redress and at halting continued abuses. The power imbalance between victims of state violence, and perpetrators who have the backing of government apparatuses, is grave. Structures to redress this imbalance are lacking.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights violations in the Philippines have intensified and the domestic remedies available for the victims are not working.
In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing worldwide protests, the American Civil Liberties Union in collaboration with Human Rights Network, the United Nations special rapporteur on Racism, Gay McDougall of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and others sent an appeal to the United Nations high commissioner for human rights asking for a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) and a commission of inquiry. It was a demand put forth in the name of the families of Black victims of police violence and over 600 advocacy organizations.
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