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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Dec. 20, slammed the call of United Nations special rapporteur Michael Forst for the Philippines to “end immediately all forms of violations against human rights defenders..,” calling it “irresponsible” and “reckless.” In the first place, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that if Forst had checked his facts first, he would have seen the “so-called human rights defenders never had it so good under the Duterte administration.” “They continue […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has filed a bill to ensure the protection of what she said were the rights of “human rights defenders.” De Lima said Senate Bill 1699 was filed after the “obsessive attacks against” the “concepts and principles”of “human rights defenders” like herself, “led by no less than the President himself.” Under the measure, she said the rights of these “defenders” include their right to seek and receive information, their […]
