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Youth activists hit the streets wearing face masks and defying the government lockdown to protest the imminent passage of a new anti-terror law in the Philippines. University of the Philippines Campus in Quezon City. Photo courtesy of Susan Corpuz. 2020 June 4.
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The anti-subversion law was the dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ tool of choice in strangling the opposition and crushing legitimate dissent. Groups fear its planned revival under President Rodrigo Duterte will lead to the same – or even worse.
MANILA, Philippines – In June 2006, two young women (...)
New report details systematic killing of poor and calls for UN investigation into crimes against humanity.
The president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is carrying out a “large-scale murdering enterprise” and should be investigated by the UN for crimes against humanity, according to a new (...)
MANILA, Philippines – An international drug kingpin now awaiting sentencing in the United States had operated his crime network unmolested from his base in the Philippines by bribing high officials that included those from the national government and police, according to a new book that detailed (...)
Some of the biggest names in human rights performing investigative tasks for the United Nations (UN) issued a rare joint statement on Friday, June 7, asking the UN to conduct an “independent investigation” of what the special rapporteurs said were “unlawful” deaths in Philippine President Rodrigo (...)
(UPDATED) At least 41 journalists from different media organizations intervene in a Supreme Court petition to end President Rodrigo Duterte’s coverage ban against Rappler.
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Journalists from competing news outfits showed solidarity on Tuesday, April 30, as 41 (...)
Court dismisses solicitor general’s claim that national security could be undermined
The Philippine supreme court on Tuesday ordered the release of police documents on the killing of thousands of suspects during the president’s drug crackdown, in a ruling that could shed light on allegations of (...)
A JAIL IS NOT A CHILD’S HOME, LOWERING THE MINIMUM AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY TO NINE (9) YEARS OLD NEGATES CHILDREN’S FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS #ChildrenNotCriminals
The Children’s Legal Advocacy Network (CLAN) calls on the House of Representatives to reconsider its decision to lower the Minimum (...)
Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Seven decades ago at the end of World War Two humankind has asserted that the destruction of human dignity in order to achieve power over populations through violence and fear would no longer reign in the (...)
The In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) condemns in the strongest possible terms the statement and intention of President Duterte to establish a death squad to hound the NPA sparrows. The establishment of a death squad means a unit operating above the law, not subject to (...)
In September 2017, Sheerah Escudero’s world came crashing down. Her beloved younger brother Ephraim had been missing for five days and the Escudero family was growing increasingly desperate. Then the call came: His body had been found lying by an empty road more than 100 kilometres away in (...)
After President Duterte spoke of his wish to see city streets rid of bystanders who like to spend the night at street corners and public places singing, drinking, gambling or just shooting the breeze, the Philippine National Police started rounding up everyone they thought had no business being (...)
On Monday, Sister Patricia Fox is likely not to be at home.
Normally, she spends the morning sitting in the walled front yard of the modest home in Quezon City, north-east of Manila, that she shares with six of her fellow nuns.
Mornings, she says, are “lazy” time. She drinks tea, takes calls from friends and colleagues and prepares for an afternoon of voluntary work.
But on Monday, if her legal appeals fail, officers of the (...)
STATEMENT ON THE PHILIPPINES’ WITHDRAWAL FROM THE ICC
The withdrawal of the Philippines from the International Criminal Court will further give rein to extrajudicial killings and violence against women, indigenous peoples, environmental defenders, activists, as well as impinge on the exercise (...)
Rights groups, rebels and indigenous activists accuse Philippine president of encouraging troops to commit war crimes.
Human rights groups, rebels and indigenous activists have accused Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of inciting the military to commit war crimes after he offered a $384 (...)
President branded a misogynist and macho-fascist after saying mutilating women fighters would make them “useless”.
President Rodrigo Duterte has been branded a misogynist and “macho-fascist” after he ordered soldiers to shoot female communist rebels in the vagina.
In a speech to over 200 former (...)
Preliminary inquiry into Philippine president is ICC’s first in a south-east Asian nation.
The international criminal court has launched an initial inquiry into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, in his brutal anti-drugs crusade.
A (...)
There’s no question about it: Rappler’s legal troubles were triggered by its commentaries and criticisms of President Duterte and his policies. Mr. Duterte has said many times that he finds these criticisms unfair, and that he will not take them sitting down. Rappler’s persecution follows a clear (...)
Philippines’ dictator Duterte turns on the media that helped elect him
Journalism in the Philippines has long been a dangerous trade , one that carries a very real risk of murder with little likelihood of accountability. Yet it is vitally important that Filipinos have a robust critical press to (...)
We, the Kalipunan ng Kilusang Masa—a union of movements of farmers, workers, urban poor, women, environmental activists, youth, students—stand in solidarity with our Mindanaoan sisters and brothers in demanding the immediate lifting of martial law in Mindanao.
When armed conflict began in Marawi (...)
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