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Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Executions.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Philippines: UN expert rejects Government-imposed conditions on fact-finding mission

16 December 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on summary executions urged the Government of the Philippines to lift a series of preconditions it has imposed on her planned visit to investigate the alleged extra-judicial killings of suspected drug dealers, since President Rodrigo Duterte took office.
Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

UN adviser on preventing genocide alarmed over ‘disrespectful’ comments by Philippines President

30 September 2016
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed alarm today at public comments by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, in which he reinforced a campaign to kill millions of drug addicts in the Philippines and compared it to the massacre of millions of Jews by Hitler during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Heroin.
UNODC (file)

UN rights experts urge Philippines to end wave of extrajudicial killings amid major drug crackdown

18 August 2016
Amid a recent massive anti-crime and anti-drug crackdown in the Philippines that has claimed the lives of more than 850 suspected criminals, two United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government to end the wave of extrajudicial executions and killings, stressing that drug charges should be “judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets.”
Joan Carling, an indigenous activist from the Cordillera, Philippines, is an expert member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
UN Radio/D. Penn

Role for indigenous in global sustainable future

18 May 2016
General News

The ability to “read” changes in weather patterns or in animal behaviour has saved indigenous communities from natural disasters for centuries.

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Shantanu Mukherjee.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

UN Gender – Year Ahead 2016

31 December 2015
UN Gender Focus

Value of women’s unpaid work deserves recognition

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Quezon City. UNIFEED (video capture)

Safer cities for women: one project takes off in the Philippines

28 December 2015
UN Gender Focus

One suburb of the Filipino capital, Manila, is trying to confront the issue of violence against women using a novel form of community patrolling.

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Girls play in the schoolyard at Santo Niño Elementary School in the town of Tanauan, Philippines.
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

Community spirit behind recovery of Filipino town hard hit by typhoon

12 November 2015
General News

After Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines two years ago this month, people in the town of Tanauan came together with “an innate desire to be of service.”

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UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Investigation into killing of Philippines journalist urged by UNESCO chief

11 November 2015
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today denounced the killing of radio journalist José Bernardo in the Philippines on 31 October.
According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), two years on, young survivors’ of Typhoon Haiyan have come out resiliently of the disaster.
Joey Reyna/UNICEF Philippines

Two years after super typhoon in Philippines, UNICEF lauds 'tremendous' recovery efforts

8 November 2015
On the second anniversary of Super Typhoon Haiyan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has commended the significant progress made in recovery and rehabilitation efforts in the Philippines, but remains concerned about the unmet needs of children and their families, some still living in temporary housing.
Commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. UN File Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Community-led development empowers Filipino indigenous community

5 November 2015
General News

A social services project run by the Philippines government has changed life in indigenous village in the north of the country, according to one of the residents.

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