PAHRA 10th Congress: 26 Years
Raising the Human Rights Bar:Consolidate and Expand the Formations of Human Rights Defenders
INQUIRER.net
Rights advocates in dialogue to resolve violations, break down impunity
By Karen Boncocan
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Human rights advocates have joined forces to step up and consolidate their efforts to stamp out rights violations, which they claimed were being violated with “impunity” in the country.
Led by Max de Mesa, chairman of the 26-year-old Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), human rights defenders and members of the diplomatic community participated in PAHRA’s 10th Congress Friday with the theme “Raising the Human Rights Bar: Consolidate and Expand the Formations of Human Rights Defenders” in their hopes of someday making human rights values “a way of life” thereby obtaining “larger freedoms – freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to reveal our institutions.” READ MORE...
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