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2020 Annual Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
During the COVID-19 Pandemic...................................................................... 42
Rights of Older Persons During the COVID-19 Pandemic................................ 44
Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs)
During the COVID-19 Pandemic...................................................................... 47
Rights of LGBTQIA+ during the Covid-19 Pandemic................................... 52
The Philippine Civil and Political Rights (CPR)
National Situation during the COVID-19 Pandemic.................................... 54
Discrimination during the COVID-19 Pandemic.............................................. 54
Rights of Human Rights Defenders during the COVID-19 Pandemic.............. 55
Extra-judicial Killings (EJKs) during the COVID-19 Pandemic........................ 61
Enforced Disappearances, Torture Cases, Arbitrary Arrests,
and Revival of Death Penalty during the COVID-19 Pandemic........................ 64
Right to Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic......................................... 67
Passage of Anti-Terrorism Law........................................................................... 68
Right to Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic.................................... 69
Recommendations........................................................................................................ 73
Appendix...................................................................................................................... 92