CHR CSJHP - Center for Social Justice and Humanitarian Protection

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

Join us at the 2025 CHR Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL): Human Rights and the Security Sector in the Dynamic 21st Century happening on 15 August 2025 in Quezon City, Philippines! 🇵🇭

The 21st Century has brought about a new age of technology and with it comes changes in how States uphold their security and sovereignty, including managing their security sector in such an evolving and dynamic world. Climate change, pandemics, and Artificial Intelligence affect modern warfare, thereby posing threats, and perhaps opportunities, in the fulfillment of human rights in situations of armed conflict.

Are you a researcher, academic, or practitioner with insights on:

• Insider view on the Philippine security sector in the face of the changing times
• Security sector reform and governance
• Armed conflict in the contexts of climate change, pandemics, and digital technology

📝 Submit your abstract now: https://tinyurl.com/chrihlconference
📅 Deadline: 20 June 2025

View the full concept note here: https://tinyurl.com/chrihlconcept
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CCCHP Statement on the 6th Anniversary of the Marawi Siege

It has been six years since the Marawi Siege on 23 May 2017. Leaving over thousands dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and billions of pesos worth of properties destroyed, the Siege had severely affected the lives of Filipinos especially those in the City of Marawi.

To this day, the wounds of the Siege continue to be felt. More than 80,000 individuals remain in situations of displacement. As the country’s National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) continuously monitors the situation of persons affected by the Marawi Siege. While there have been marked improvements in communities’ access to basic needs and services and in the implementation of the Marawi Compensation Act, gaps and protection issues linked to displacement continue to surface. Victims have yet to achieve healing and justice, and IDPs still lack the mechanisms to pursue their desired durable solutions.

The CHR calls on the State to continuously support the communities affected by the Marawi Siege and ensure that solutions are sustainable and long-term. Aside from restitution and compensation, the prevention of violent extremism and support transitional justice efforts in Marawi City must be undertaken.

As we commemorate the Marawi Siege, we must strive to keep the stories of the affected communities remembered in the national consciousness. We join those affected towards healing, peace, justice, and the fulfillment of their human rights.