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By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News Published May 5, 2021 2:51pm The August 2020 killing of Sara Alvarez is among the cases cited during the meeting of the Canadian parliament's Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Wednesday morning (Manila time). FILE PHOTO Human rights advocates have formally called on the Canadian government to cease giving anti-terrorism aid to the Philippines amid the alleged use of anti-terrorism policies to crack down on dissent and purge human rights workers. Cristina Palabay, secreta...

Published May 5, 2021, 3:34 PM Karapatan A human rights group has urged a foreign government to help in addressing what it called “human rights crisis in the Philippines.” Karapatan, a radical group that conducts research and monitors human rights violations, aired its laments during a hearing conducted last May 4 by the Canadian House of Commons Sub-committee on International Human Rights. Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general, claimed that even Philippine courts which are mandated to provide legal protection to human rights defenders “refused or denied these protections.” Pa...

“We implore the Canadian government to take action on these concerns with urgency, as our country further descends into an authoritarian state."