PH gov’t misleading UN on state of social and economic rights
PH gov’t misleading UN on state of social and economic rights
Philippine UPR Watch
November 12, 2022
By IBON Foundation
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Philippine government grossly misleads the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the state of social and economic rights in the country in the report it belatedly submitted for the 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), according to the Philippine UPR Watch network. The network of advocacy and human rights organizations scored the official report for its selectivity and hiding serious violations of millions of Filipinos’ social and economic rights.
“The UPR is a unique venue for the global community to discuss human rights conditions and the compliance of the Philippine government to its obligations under important agreements such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. However, the Philippine government has reduced the process to a mere public relations exercise for image-building,” said Philippine UPR Watch.
The Philippine government claimed “inroads in socio-economic development anchored on social justice [that] are enriching the human rights environment” in its submission for the UPR. Countering this, the Philippine UPR Watch highlighted the perfunctory tokenism of government measures that seek to paint a rosy picture that is vastly different from the realities of poverty, underdevelopment and gross inequality persistent in the Philippines today.
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