MANILA, Philippines — The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) has asked for the intervention of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights amid the attacks and
In its 14-page submission to UN Human Rights Office, the NUPL noted that human rights lawyers are tagged as “’destabilizers’, ‘leftists’, ‘communists’, and ‘terrorists’ by State forces and their allies in media and the private sector.”
In its recommendation, NUPL asked the UNHCHR and the UN Human Rights Council to pass a resolution or undertake appropriate measures to help stop the intense vilification and vicious red-tagging of the NUPL and other human rights lawyers and groups. The group cited the placing of posters at the entrance of a hotel in Tacloban depicting NUPL Chairperson Neri Colmenares and NUPL President Edre Olalia as well as the NUPL itself asIt likewise mentioned how Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr. “persistently and publicly tagged NUPL and its members as communists and terrorists.”Further, the group noted that 44 lawyers have been killed in the country since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016.
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