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CHR welcomes UN moratorium on death penalty

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The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) has welcomed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on the Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty.

The Philippine is one of the 123 UNGA member states that voted in favor of the resolution on December 16, while 38 member states were against it and 24 abstained.

“The Commission recognizes this positive development particularly with the Philippine vote, which signals the government veering away from the reintroduction of the death penalty,” said Gomez-Dumpit From the very start, the CHR has expressed its stance against the death penalty and its reimposition.

 

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