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Joint Statement, Press Statement, Statements
Read the Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2020-01 of the Commission on Human Rights and the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Ensuring Gender-Responsive Interventions to COVID-19 and the New Normal Including Ensuring Prompt, Effective, and Survivor-Centered Response to All Forms of Gender-Based Violence.
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At face value, the South Cotabato Covid-19 Contact Tracing System fits within the triad of the government’s general strategy of ‘test, trace, treat’ in responding to the current pandemic. Interventions, such as preventing further transmission, are best aided with correct
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The Commission on Human Rights lauds the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) for the peaceful and orderly exercise of voting rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) under their custody during the
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The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) joins the global observance of the International Day of Sign Languages today, 23 September 2025, and the International Week of the Deaf. Recognizing and promoting the use of sign languages not only affirms the
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Ensuring the rule of law means that the protection of our fundamental rights are guaranteed. Such principle rests on the idea that laws are not only enforced, but applied at all times—consistent and without exception. Perpetrators of violations must be
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The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaps and inequalities that have been allowed to develop for far too long—one of which is the growing digital divide around the world and in the Philippines. In a time when majority of the population
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GENEVA (16 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged States to avoid overreach of security measures in their response to the coronavirus outbreak and reminded them that emergency powers should not be used to quash dissent. “While we