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SELF-CARE FOR PEOPLE AT RISK

Are you a front liner? a human rights defender? or a service provider? Does your work and work environment bring you overwhelming stress? Let this short video show you how stress and its effects on your mind and body can harm you and what you can do about it.

This video aims to inform and remind people-at-risk on the effects of stress and how it can be effectively managed through self-care and other means readily available to them. This is a part of the Action "Empowered Human Rights Defenders for the Protection and Defense of All Human Rights for All and in the Fight Against Impunity in the Philippines" European Union (EU) project.

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PATIENT'S RIGHTS KOMIKS

Ang mga karapatan ng pasyente ay bahagi ng karapatan sa kalusugan, na isang batayang karapatang pantao. Ito ay mahalagang kilalanin, igalang at isakatuparan bilang hakbang sa pagtatamasa ng buhay na may dignidad at pagpapahalaga sa buhay ng tao.

Naniniwala ang Medical Action Group (MAG) na susi sa pagtamasa ng mga karapatang ito ang magkaroon ng tamang kaalaman at sapat na impormasyon upang ang mga karapatang ito ay maisakatuparan ayon na rin sa mga umiiral na batas at patakaran.  Magsilbi din sana itong praktikal na gabay sa bawat isa sa pag-alam sa mga programang pangkalusugan ng pamahalaan ganundin kung paano maidudulog ang mga hinaing o mungkahi hinggil sa hindi tamang pamamalakad o kakulangan sa pagpapatupad ng mga serbisyo’t programang ito.

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MAG Statement

June 29, 2020

 

All forms of discrimination against Health Workers must end NOW!

It is been more than a month since the Medical Action Group (MAG) issued a statement calling out against all forms of discriminatory treatments towards health workers amid the Covid 19 pandemic. Based on its monitoring from March to June 2020, there are already more than a hundred health workers who have experienced discrimination such eviction from their rented apartment, refusal to convey for transportation, avoided publicly and denied entry to diner. There was also a news report of physical attack such as the case of a hospital utility staff worker from Sultan Kudarat who was doused with bleach on the face while on the way to work.

Despite undertaking life-saving work for little pay, our health workers are now suffering from humiliation, abuse and threat due to public fear of infection. The most recent report came from a nurse in Quezon City, who spoke up on social media about the alleged illegal detention imposed against them by the building administrator of the condominium she and three others are renting. Based on her account, they have been restricted by the building administrator from leaving their condominium unit when one of them was tested positive of coronavirus. Despite their assurances that they are following strict health protocols and the rest of them have been tested negative, the building administrator still refused to lift the restriction and continuously barred them from going out. She also claimed that she already missed her hospital duty for two days.

MAG has already condemned the continuing stigmatization and discrimination against our health heroes and reiterated its call on the authorities to put a stop to these despicable acts. While we commend on the efforts of the local government units by passing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect the health workers and other frontliners against all forms of discrimination. But any law is only good as its implementation.  What we need is the full enforcement.

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United Against Torture Coalition (UATC) - Philippines

Press Release

26 June 2020

  

Torture free Philippines should be the “new normal”

Today 26 June[1], the United Against Torture Coalition (UATC)-Philippines, a broad network of human rights organizations and human rights defenders together with its partners, In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND), Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP), are one with the world in commemoration of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and in contributing to the campaign for the absolute prohibition of torture in all corners of the world.

On this day in 1987, the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into effect. The Philippines[2] acceded to this Convention on 18 June 1986.

Torture is an unequivocal crime. Under the UN Convention against Torture, it is prohibited under all circumstances, without exception.  Yet torture is still commonplace and systematically being practiced by many States including the Philippines in the conduct of custodial investigation under the guise of combatting terrorism, curbing criminality, and maintaining peace and order, which risk eroding constitutional and other legal protections.  While the Philippines is considered one of its kind in Asia for criminalizing torture as a specific criminal offense with the passage of the Anti-Torture Act in 2009[3], however the Philippine government failed to fully and effectively implement the law with reported cases of torture and ill treatment continue unabated.