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The United Nations Human Rights Council dealt victims of human rights violations in the Philippines a serious blow by failing to pass a resolution that would ensure continued scrutiny of the country’s rights situation.
"At this stage, discontinuing the only scheduled debate on the country at the HRC will risk acquiescing (to) ongoing abuses and violations and will abandon tens of thousands of victims who deserve justice and accountability."
Come October, the Philippine government will undergo the fifth periodic review on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In a policy paper submitted to UN member states, Human Rights Watch said that extrajudicial killings in the government’s ‘war on drugs’ still continue.
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