45% Madam President, Distinguished Members High Commissioner for Human of the Human Rights Council, and the Rights — as the world endures the impact of the pandemic, it is our privilege and duty to speak before you today. The Commission on Human Rights welcomes the report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines. We consider Government’s engagement with the OHCHR as a sign of greater cooperation with independent mechanisms, and we acknowledge its response but We regret and recommendations. share the view that while the climate of impunity can be traced from the failure the public rejection to fully address behavior towards past human of human the conclusions rights rights have been violations, present conditioned inciting hatred, vilifying legitimate dissent, and attitudes by harmful and rhetoric of incentivizing violence, allowing impunity to acutely persist today. There is a continuing obligation for the State to end impunity, pursue social justice, and uphold the dignity and human rights of all. Part of this obligation is to accept the report’s findings and recommendations, continue to dialogue, take definitive steps to demonstrate the effectiveness of domestic mechanisms, and cooperate with other independent accountability mechanisms including the special procedures. The over-reliance pervading culture on a ‘strong-arm’ of impunity. To approach improve has the largely contributed human rights to the situation, the Philippines must change course guided by the human rights-based approach to democratic governance.