1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Philippine Human Rights Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The U.S. State Department’s 2019 Human Rights Report on the Philippines states There were numerous reports of government security agencies and their informal allies committed arbitrary or unlawful killings in connection with the government directed campaign against illegal drugs. . The Report goes on to state, Government mechanisms to investigate and punish abuse and corruption in the security forces were poorly resourced and remained largely ineffective . The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights in its annual report for the 44th Session of the Human Rights Council concluded that there is long-standing overemphasis on public order and national security at the expense of human rights has become more acute in recent years, and there are concerns that the vilification of dissent is being increasingly institutionalized and normalized in ways that will be very difficult to reverse