Philippine Human Rights Information Center

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The Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) is a non-profit, national human rights organization in the Philippines, Manila. PhilRights is the research and information arm of PAHRA and is a research and information institution that provides information, documentation, research and analyses. [1] The main work are the Institutional Programs: Human Rights Research, Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation, Human Rights Information, Human Rights Education and Training.

PhilRights was founded in 1991 by PAHRA.

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