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Philippines: The #UN's Special Rapporteur on #indigenous rights has been placed on a government list of 600 designated as #communist terrorists. Philippines "government appears actively hostile to the idea of protecting human rights defenders,” says #ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights. Defenders of environment and indigenous land rights are increasingly under attack. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-rights-crime/philippine-indigenous-activist-shot-dead-in-increasingly-hostile-climate-idUSKCN1GO1AH