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United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor has urged the Philippine government to speed up the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill as a show of its commitment to human rights treaties and standards.
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Under Duterte, red-tagging is used as a weapon to silence dissent and as justification for human rights abuses.
Cristina Palabay, secretary general of human rights alliance Karapatan, said that the ATA, if upheld, would only legalize the human rights violations perpetrated by state security forces.
Exactly a month after her husband was abducted, Johanna Abua asked the Court of Appeals to demand army officials to produce the body of Steve Abua who went missing on November 6, 2021. He was last seen in the village of Sta. Cruz which is part of the central business district of the municipality of Lubao in the province of Pampanga, some 90 kilometers from Manila.