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SUSTAINING CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT. Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra says the Philippines will continue to work with the international community and all its development partners to build on gains achieved and further deepen honest, open, meaningful, and enduring cooperation in the sphere of human rights. Guevarra represented the Philippines in theHigh-Level Segment of the 49thRegular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on March 1, 2022 (Geneva time). (UN Web TV) Geneva, Switzerland- Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra affirmed the Philippines' commitment to...

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Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors and other health workers as become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to attend to those in need. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care. In "Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War," Leonard Rubenstein, a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities against health workers around the world, offers an account...

The Philippines has called on the Human Rights Council (HRC) to observe fairness and respect for United Nations (UN) member states' sovereignty in its discourse of human rights issues and situations. Ambassador Enrique A. Manalo (Photo courtesy of the New York Philippine Mission/DFA) Ambassador

Duterte instructed for review of campaign, in which over 6,100 suspected drug dealers and users were killed.. Read more at straitstimes.com.