UN report urges PH: Stop ‘misusing’ anti-terror measures vs. clergy, activists
The Philippine government has employed its counter-terrorism financing oversight powers in a broad and arbitrary manner against non-profit organisations and individuals.
United Nations
Groups commend UN expert’s recommendations, urge government to heed advice
Progressive groups commended United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Ian Fry’s recommendations to the government concerning the pressing issues on climate change and human rights following his 10-day official visit in the country.
Progressives assail PH gov’t abstention from UN reso for humanitarian truce
Progressive groups denounced the Philippine government for abstaining from the United Nation’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce amid the increasing attacks of the Israel government on Gaza.
Activists in 40 countries, including PH, face threats for cooperating with UN
By SHERWIN DE VERANorthern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — A major United Nations report has identified 40 countries, including the Philippines, where human rights defenders and organizations face “intimidation and reprisals due to cooperation or attempted cooperation” with...
Philippines unworthy of UN Security Council seat, rights groups say
Human rights groups said the Philippines is not worthy to become a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council because of “grave human rights violations” in the country. The Philippine UPR (Universal Periodic Review) Watch from Geneva, Switzerland said...
UN urged to investigate Aerotropolis project
Environmental group said the Aerotropolis project has “resulted in the displacement of coastal communities, the loss of their livelihood, the deforestation of their mangrove forest, and numerous cases of harassment from police and military agents.” By EIKEE JAMELA...
Drug war widow brings husband’s case to UN
A widow of a victim of the government’s so-called war on drugs called for a stronger United Nations (UN) effort in investigating the killings in the Philippines. Amy Jane Lee, whose husband Michael was among the thousands killed, said the bloody campaign started by...
Rights defenders ask UN: ‘Probe alarming record of Marcos gov’t’
A group of Filipino human rights advocates are in Geneva, Switzerland to attend the ongoing 54th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and seek an evaluation of the United Nations Joint Program (UNJP) being implemented in the Philippines. A...
Environmental group reports PH gov’t not acting on anti-climate change commitments
The year-old Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government continues to implement anti-environment projects that cause displacement and other disastrous impacts of climate change, an environmental group told the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Health care in PH remains unbalanced, groups tell UN
Health groups reported at the United Nations (UN) that access to health care in the Philippines remains inequitable despite digital innovations and technological breakthroughs in the sector.
PH accepted 215 out of 289 UN’s human rights recommendations. What were excluded?
The local human rights situation has not improved under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration.
Abduction survivor to speak at Geneva ahead of PH govt’s adoption of UN recommendations
Abduction survivor April Dyan Gumanao will speak at around 5 p.m. (Philippine time) today during a side event of the ongoing 52nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva’s Palais des Nations.
PH among countries that persecute rights defenders—UN
Human rights defenders in the Philippines face reprisals and intimidation for cooperating with the United Nations (UN) on human rights, a new report reveals.