Rights defenders call for international support to end extrajudicial killings, other rights abuses

MANILA, Philippines–Human rights defenders from the Philippine UPR Watch have appealed for international support to put an end to extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in the country.

The appeal comes ahead of the adoption of recommendations made by United Nations member states during the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the state of human rights in the Philippines in November 2022.

The group, co-led by National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers chairperson and International Association of Democratic Lawyers interim president Edre Olalia, cited the report by the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center which monitored 227 drug war-related ki…

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