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LIVE: U.N. rights office presents PH situation report to Human Rights Council
Watch Michelle Bachelet of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights presents the comprehensive report on Tuesday, June 30, at 4:30 pm Manila time
U.N. rights council agrees to urgent debate on racism, police violence
It is only the fifth time in the council's 14-year history that it has agreed to hold an 'urgent debate,' which is a special debate agreed upon within a regular session of the council
U.N. Human Rights Council to suspend session over COVID-19
The top UN rights body has decided 'to suspend the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council on the 13th of March until further notice'
UNHRC urged to create Commission of Inquiry for Philippines
The group emphasizes the need for an investigation into the worsening human rights situation under the Duterte administration – including attacks on environmental defenders
Crackdown on environmental defenders 'may lead to P1-T ecological damage yearly'
The Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment submits to the United Nations its own report on the human rights situation under the Duterte administration
Venezuela wins seat on U.N. rights council
(UPDATED) To applause in the chamber, Venezuela gets the nod in a vote by the UN General Assembly to choose 14 new members for the 47-member body based in Geneva
U.N. launches probe into Venezuela rights abuses
A resolution tabled by more than a dozen countries from Latin America and elsewhere is adopted by the 47-member council with 19 votes in favor, 7 opposed, and 21 abstaining
Locsin forgives Iceland's 'dead resolution' on PH drug war killings
But Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr maintains he will not allow any foreign observers to enter the Philippines to conduct investigations in line with a report by the UN Human Rights Council
Pakistan calls for U.N. probe of India actions in Kashmir
'For the last 6 weeks, India has transformed Occupied Jammu and Kashmir into the largest prison on this planet,' says Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
U.N. rights chief slams Venezuela over killings, bid to criminalize NGOs
Michelle Bachelet details a range of ongoing abuses in Venezuela and once again points a finger at Venezuela's police special forces
[OPINION] Rainbow glitters after the storm: The UN Human Rights Council Resolution on SOGI
As to how long the light will stay will all depend on the sterling commitment of people to fight for the beautiful cause of the rights of LGBTIQ persons
Why Iceland led UN resolution on PH drug war killings
'For a small and peaceful country like Iceland, international law and the multilateral system is our sword, shield and shelter,' says Iceland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Bersamin: No need for int'l interference in drug war probe
'I am a member of the judiciary and kailangan ipilit kong sabihin sa ngayon wala naman kaming nakikitang dapat lamang na manghimasok taga-ibang bansa,' said Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin
Not yet final: Imee Marcos says UNHRC resolution can 'still be withdrawn'
Senator Imee Marcos says there is 'no UN rule' that stops UNHRC member-states from changing their original votes on the Iceland-backed resolution
Sotto 'won't be surprised' if Philippines quits UNHRC over Iceland resolution
But Senator Panfilo Lacson says the Philippines, being a developing country, still needs 'help from the community of nations'
PH won't provide drug war docs if UNHRC report 'just fishing expedition'
The Philippine government will only respond to requests for documents if Malacañang 'feels that the question is legitimate'
Groups hit PH govt's 'overreaction' to U.N. resolution vs drug war killings
Human rights groups say the response of the Philippine government is a 'poor display of diplomacy'
Malacañang says UNHRC resolution an insult to Filipinos
The Palace calls the resolution 'grotesquely one-sided' and says President Rodrigo Duterte will decide whether to 'permit' the United Nations to probe drug war killings
CHR says U.N. resolution vs drug war 'opportunity' to improve PH situation
The Commission on Human Rights urges the Philippine government to revisit its stand on independent probes into drug war killings
Philippines threatens U.N. countries hitting drug war
(UPDATED) Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr warns 18 countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom: 'There will be consequences, far-reaching ones'
Rule of law in Venezuela 'eroded' – U.N. rights chief
(UPDATED) Venezuela immediately slams the report, saying it 'is dominated by a selective and partial vision'
U.N. rights chief urges states to repatriate families of ISIS fighters
In her opening address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet insists that countries must take responsibility for their nationals caught up in Syria's drawn-out war
Campuses not camps: China defends Xinjiang policies at UN
China's vice foreign minister Le Yucheng says their 'training centers' are meant to educate and rehabilitate
Saudi Arabia rejects call for international probe of Khashoggi murder
The head of a Saudi delegation speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva insists that his country is taking all the 'measures required for us to resolve this heinous crime'
Saudi hit with rare rebuke at U.N. rights body over Khashoggi
Thirty-six nations condemn Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a rare censure of the oil-rich kingdom at the UN Human Rights Council
3 U.N. special rapporteurs to probe violations vs De Lima
(UPDATED) The United Nations Human Rights Council asks the Philippine government to immediately free Senator Leila de Lima
Saudi Arabia, allies slam 'biased' U.N. resolution on Yemen
It comes after the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend an international probe of alleged war crimes committed in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Shiite Huthi rebels
New U.N. panel to prepare indictments over Myanmar atrocities
Only 3 of the council's 47 members voted against the resolution: Philippines, China, and Burundi. Thirty-five voted in favor, while the rest either abstained or refrained from casting a vote.
PH not following US withdrawal from UN rights body
The US decision to leave the UNHRC 'reflects' President Rodrigo Duterte's sentiment that 'there is bias in human rights groups,' says Malacañang
U.S. steps up threat to quit UN human rights council
The United States says the UN human rights council was 'grossly biased' against Israel after adopting 5 resolutions against the country
[OPINION] Respect for national proceedings?
If what Harry Roque means about 'national proceeding' is such national criminal proceeding against Duterte, the question is to be asked: is there or has there been such national criminal investigation against Duterte in the first place?
Possible 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar: UN rights chief
Speaking before a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the abuses against the Rohingya, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein condemns 'widespread, systematic and shockingly brutal' attacks against the Rohingya
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PH rejects calls by UN member-states for probe into EJKs
The Philippine delegation insists that deaths from police operations 'are not EJKs'
UN investigators demand 'full, unfettered' access to Myanmar
'It is important for us to see with our own eyes the sites of these alleged violations,' the head of the fact-finding mission says
Marawi crisis, Reynaldo de Guzman, UN Human Rights Council | Midday wRap
Watch the midday newscast with Mara Cepeda
Global split over Rohingya crisis as China backs Myanmar crackdown
3rd UPDATE Refugees fleeing the unrest have brought stories of entire villages burned to the ground by Buddhist mobs and Myanmar troops
After killings of teenagers, HRW urges UN inquiry into PH drug war
Until Duterte ends his abusive drug war and allows a UN led international probe child killers among the police will continue to get away with murder says Human Rights Watch deputy Asia director Phelim Kine
China blocking rights activists, harassing experts at UN – HRW
In its report Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese officials of routinely photographing and filming activists on UN premises in violation of UN rules and barring Chinese activists from travelling to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
Maduro cancels Human Rights Council appearance in Geneva – UN
Speaking in Geneva shortly before the appearance was scrapped Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth says the idea of President Maduro coming to the UN to speak about human rights is laughable
U.S. pressures Myanmar to accept UN rights probe
Yangon officials said last week that they would deny visas to the 3 person team mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate abuses reportedly committed by security forces in Rakhine state
Philippines complains to UN agency about Callamard
UPDATED The Philippines voices its extreme displeasure over the consistent biased prejudgment made by UN rapporteur Agnes Callamard
[Newspoint] Quibbling over life and death in the war on drugs
Thousands of lives have been taken summarily and we are debating whether those killings were justified or not
Karapatan brings cases of political killings in PH to UN
Cases of extrajudicial killings related to the Duterte administration s bloody war on drugs are next
Myanmar Rohingya militants call for peacekeeping troops
In a statement widely shared by Rohingya activists outside of Myanmar the group says it acted to defend salvage and protect the Rohingya community in Arakan Rakhine
North Korea boycotts UN review of its rights record
The UN s top expert on the human rights situation in North Korea Tomas Ojea Quintana tells the council in Geneva that increasing military tensions in the Asia Pacific region have further isolated the Stalinist state
PH gov’t fence-sitting on LGBTIQ rights at UN
Our ambassador’s position simply refuses to give due recognition to our domestic realities and trivializes the efforts of government and civil society to ensure that LGBTIQ Filipinos live with dignity
Growing number of countries refusing to cooperate on rights – UN
The UN rights chief decries an emerging pattern in which a growing number of states were refusing access to UN representatives investigating allegations of rights violations
Somalia pressed over media freedom, journalist death toll
A United Nations report says a total of 30 journalists were killed in Somalia between August 2012 and June 2016
UN rights team will seek to hold N.Korea leaders to account
The new expert group will focus on issues of accountability for human rights violations in the country in particular where such violations amount to crimes against humanity
