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A woman and a child walk with their belongings along a road destroyed by Tropical Storm Tembin in Munai muncipality, Lanao del Norte, north Mindanao, the Philippines.
UNHCR/J. Pangalian

Field teams working 'around the clock' in wake of deadly storm in the Philippines – UNICEF

25 December 2017
Humanitarian Aid

Relief supplies prepositioned by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are ready for dispatch to areas of Philippines hit by Tropical Storm Tembin (known locally as “Vinta”) and its field teams are working around the clock to assess the scale of damage, the UN agency has said.

Secretary-General António Guterres.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin (file)

UN stands ready to support the Philippines in aftermath of deadly storm – Secretary-General

23 December 2017
Expressing sadness at the loss of lives and devastation in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Tembin, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Saturday that the Organization stands ready to provide support.
Alan Peter Cayetano, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Fight against drugs and crime aims to protect law-abiding people, Philippines tells UN

23 September 2017
The Philippines’ battle against corruption, crime and illegal drugs seeks to protect the human rights of peaceful law-abiding people, the country’s top foreign affairs official said today at the United Nations General Assembly.
Agnès Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

“Urgent action” needed by Philippines over “spiralling” violations

31 July 2017
General News

The government of the Philippines needs to take “urgent action” to address a “spiralling” series of human rights violations, including the summary execution of children.

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Children play outside their home at a shelter in the Philippines.
UNICEF/Joshua Estey

Philippines: UN reports significant progress in child protection, despite ongoing violations

2 May 2017
The Government of the Philippines and a rebel group with which it signed a peace accord have made progress in ending and preventing the recruitment of children on the southern island of Mindanao, according to a new United Nations report.
Angelina Baltazar-Ortiz at UN Headquarters.
UN Photo/Lucy Dean

Indigenous women in Philippines need to "assert their rights"

20 March 2017
General News

Indigenous women in the Philippines have “many problems,” including a lack of recognition of their ancestral land rights, so they need to be empowered in order to stand up for those rights, a human rights advocate has urged.

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Security forces in Kinshasa during demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December 2016. The discovery of new mass graves should be followed up by an international probe, according to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
MONUSCO

UN human rights chief calls for probe on DRC abuses

8 March 2017
General News

Allegations of grave human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should face a high-level international probe, the UN Human Rights chief said on Wednesday.

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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. (file)
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Countries should not be afraid to implement the rights of indigenous peoples

26 January 2017
General News

Countries should not be afraid to strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples as guaranteed by a UN Declaration adopted a decade ago, a

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