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Photo from the Commission on Human Rights shows its new chair Leah Tanodra-Armamento.

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MANILA, Philippines — Human rights groups welcomed the appointment of lawyer Leah Tanodra-Armamento as the Commission on Human Rights' new chairperson who will lead the body in the last months of President Rodrigo Duterte’s tumultuous term.

 

Tanodra-Armamento was part of the present and fifth Commission en banc. She will serve until May 5—or the unexpired term of former CHR chair Chito Gascon who passed away last year due to COVID-19.

 

"[Attorney] Armamento is a career government official who has spent much of her professional life in government, particularly with the CHR since 2015, so she knows how the system works," Human Rights Watch Asia researcher Carlos Conde told Philstar.com.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/02/17/2161452/groups-hope-new-chr-chair-will-continue-seeking-accountability-rights-abuses

 

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