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Former 🇵🇭 Correspondent. Covered 🇹🇭 Cave Rescue in 2018. Outside work: 🏔🤿 🏃🏻‍♂️📚⛵️
Oct 7, 2020 22 tweets 8 min read
BREAKING The UN adopts a resolution that spares the Philippines from an international probe into alleged human rights abuses, ‘recognising’, the govt’s announcement of a review panel that would re-evaluate cases of deaths during police drug war operations. THREAD #UNHRC45 Image The overall aim of the resolution is to improve: “technical cooperation and capacity-building for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines.”
Jun 4, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: A United Nations report into allegations of human rights abuses in the Philippines has concluded that government policies have resulted in systematic violations including killings, arbitrary detentions and vilification of dissent #UNHumanRights (Thread) On the drug war, the report’s author says the police’s key policy note contained “ominous” & “ill-defined language” such as “neutralising” suspects & coupled with “rhetoric at high levels calling for killings of drug offenders”, it was taken as a permission by the police to kill.