o Reconsider the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Bill to include stronger human rights safeguards. We ask the Human Rights Council and the international community to support * the technical cooperation between the Government and OHCHR * for OHCHR to have the mandate to continue to monitor and report progress on the recommendations * and in the absence of timely and measurable outcomes, to consider options for other international accountability measures The Commission human stands together with the victims, disadvantaged rights defenders discourse and groups and in valuing the Council as the fulcrum of international cooperation for the protection of all human rights. This has encouraged us to defend our shrinking civic space and respond to human rights attacks protection presents on the for ground. human Government Your sustained rights defenders, with the focus amplify opportunity to will the continue voices take to provide of victims proactive as strides it in responding to human rights concerns in the country. To forge constructive dialogue and collaboration at home, we respectfully ask the Human Rights Council for this opportunity to remain open. Mabuhay at Maraming Salamat po. (Thank you very much.)

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