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Palace backs Locsin's call to deny rights advocate entry to PH over drug war criticism

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 12 08:39 PM

Malacañang agreed with Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr's statement that human rights advocate Phelim Kline should be barred from the Philippines if he tries to enter the country to advise Vice President Leni Robredo on the drug war. Read more »

World Bank scales back project in China’s Xinjiang region

Alan Rappeport, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 12 08:59 AM

The Chinese government has been facing criticism for detaining more than a million Muslim Uighurs and placing them in “re-education” camps where they are forced to renounce their religious beliefs and embrace the ideology of the Communist Party. Read more »

Makabayan bloc pinainspeksiyon ang mga opisina kontra 'tanim-ebidensiya'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 01:42 AM

Pagkatapos ng serye ng mga raid sa mga tanggapan ng grupong Makabayan, kusa na nilang pinainspeksiyon sa Commission on Human Rights ang iba nilang mga opisina para hindi na umano mataniman pa ng ebidensiya ng mga awtoridad. Read more »

Robredo open to UN probe if PH fails to punish drug war abuses

Christian Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 09 01:29 AM

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) may step in but only if Philippine authorities failed to investigate and punish alleged abuses in the country’s drug war, Vice President Leni Robredo said Friday.   Read more »

With a smile, Southeast Asian nations protect an authoritarian

Hannah Beech, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 08 08:52 AM

This week, though, regional governments have banded together to use ASEAN’s principles to justify a startling act: blocking Cambodian opposition politicians who are trying to return home to confront Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, Asia’s longest-serving authoritarian leader. Read more »

CHR urges agencies to promptly deliver aid to Mindanao quake victims

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 04 07:50 PM

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) urged aid agencies to fast-track their response to the series of earthquakes in Mindanao as it extended its sympathy to affected families. Read more »

OPINION: Killings of 7 youths spark tensions in new Muslim autonomous region

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 29 11:51 AM

BARMM officials are conducting a separate probe into reports that 7 youths, including several minors, were massacred by government troops on October 23.  Read more »

Helicopter fire on IS-linked fighters kills 9 in NW Syria: monitor

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 27 03:22 PM

Helicopter gunfire early Sunday killed nine people near a northwestern Syrian village where "groups linked to the Islamic State group" were present, said a Britain-based war monitor with sources inside Syria. Read more »

Halos 500 detainees namatay habang nasa police custody simula 2016: PNP-IAS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 24 07:24 PM

Halos 500 preso ang namatay simula 2016, ayon sa audit ng Philippine National Police-Internal Affairs Service. Read more »

CHR to probe gun attack on 2 Bukidnon teachers

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 22 07:07 PM

The Commission on Human Rights said Monday it would investigate a gun attack on 2 teachers, a married couple, in the southern province of Bukidnon earlier this week.    Read more »

No clean water, no beds: 8 Bilibid inmates dead due to dehydration - group

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 22 10:15 AM

Since Oct. 9, the BuCor has suspended visitation privileges of inmates, cut off the delivery of clean water, and destroyed prisoners' sleeping quarters, according to Dolores Pangilinan, wife of an inmate and head of Samahan ng mga Pamilya na Nasa Death Row. Read more »

Former rights body chair: PCGG under Duterte has been very timid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 08 02:58 PM

Martial law survivor and former Human Rights Commission Chairperson, Etta Rosales is disappointed over the Anti-Graft Court's dismissal of another ill-gotten wealth case against the Marcoses. Rosales claims the PCGG is not wining cases due to lack of support from president Rodrigo Duterte who is known to have close ties with the Marcos family.    Read more »

Panelo to US Senator Leahy: 'You simply don't get it'

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 03 12:50 PM

And the word war between Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo and US Senator Patrick Leahy continues. Read more »

US senator fires back at Panelo, cites human rights situation in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 07:31 AM

MANILA—The dispute between US Sen. Patrick Leahy and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman is showing no signs of slowing down.   Read more »

Locsin, PH top diplomat, minces no words at UN General Assembly

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Updated as of Sep 29 11:36 PM

The Philippines' top diplomat minced no words in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly's high-level open debate on Saturday. Read more »

Philippines votes against UN resolution on Rohingya crisis

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 28 05:20 AM

MANILA—The Philippines has voted against a United Nations (UN) resolution that seeks to end human rights abuses of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar. Read more »

CHR to conduct separate probe into PMA cadet’s death

Michelle Soriano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 10:05 PM

The Commission on Human Rights called the death of PMA cadet Darwin Dormitorio a “brazen disregard of the right to life.” Read more »

'Justice for Aldrin': Mother of drug-war victim continues fight in foreign land

Jofelle P. Tesorio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 30 07:28 AM

Nanette Castillo brings her son's case outside the Philippines so that, in her words, the world would know that many mothers like her are real and they are crying for justice. Read more »

‘Zero-tolerance for hazing’: CHR denounces PMA cadet’s death

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 25 06:33 PM

The Commission on Human Rights condemned the death of PMA cadet Darwin Dormitorio, a casualty of hazing. Read more »

‘You don’t mess with PH': Palace touts rejection of aid from Iceland resolution backers

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 24 02:31 PM

The Philippines’ rejection of foreign aid from countries supportive of Iceland’s call to investigate its war on drugs should be seen as a message that other nations cannot interfere with Manila’s internal affairs, Malacañang said Tuesday. Read more »