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Military, police and politicians should stop labelling civic activists as terrorists!
1. Concept
In an article published by the International Peace Observers network (IPON)”,” red tagging” or “red baiting”
“describes the practice of state actors to publicly and detractively classify (...)
To see Leila de Lima’s case as independent [from its political context] … is to turn a blind eye to what’s been happening in the country … To see our freedoms as unrelated to hers is to invite the absurdity and the violence to continue.”
I wrote the above words in November 2019 to mark the 1,000 (...)
’It is business as usual for us. We will adapt, adjust, survive and thrive,’ Rappler tells staff
MANILA, Philippines – On the last two days of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order affirming one more time its decision to revoke the certificates (...)
Philippines orders news outlet run by Nobel Peace Prize winner to shut down
(CNN Business). Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday the Philippine government has ordered her news organization Rappler to shut down.
Ressa, CEO and founder of Rappler, released a (...)
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), through its Regional Office in Region IV-A, is already conducting a motu propio investigation into the arrest of environmental defender and activist Daisy Macapanpan on Saturday, 11 June 2022 in Pakil town, Laguna.
According to reports, she was arrested (...)
After five years of unjust imprisonment, one question gets more and more frequently asked of me, especially as the 2022 elections loom nearer: Why, despite all the controversies – of corruption, of abuses, of incompetence, of nepotism, of repression, of collusion with foreign enemies, and, (...)
Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.
Data collected by the Third World Studies Center of the University of the Philippines Diliman showed that in (...)
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 24 lawyers from 12 countries expressed their disapproval of the nomination of presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’ to the United Nations (UN) International Law Commission (ILC).
The lawyers are representatives of the International Association of Democratic (...)
“Activists have been killed over the last year, both by the security forces and by unknown individuals. In many instances, activists were killed after being red-tagged. In virtually none of the cases has anyone been held accountable for the killings.”
MANILA – An international rights group (...)
For those who took the path of the International Criminal Court, the judicial authorisation request of the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with an investigation is a “monumental step towards justice,” and a “ray of hope” for the families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the war on drugs. (...)
Reacting to the condemnation by four senators of National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Alex Monteagudo’s “red-tagging” of the Senate employees’ union, Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy falsely claimed that Philippine courts already ruled that there is (...)
The Independent International Commission of Investigation into Human Rights Violations in the Philippines (Investigate PH) “is an initiative of peoples from all over the world concerned about the state of human rights in the Philippines,” its website reads. It will conduct an inquiry into alleged (...)
’The president and the military are engaged in a self-defeating campaign’
At the wake of former National Bureau of Investigation “counter-terrorism” chief Raul Manguerra, Secretary of Justice Menardo Guevarra said that he regretted Manguerra’s demise because “the implementation of the (...)
Hundreds of activists in the Philippines are facing charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives, with the latest arrests made in a wave of police operations on International Human Rights Day.
Six trade unionists and a journalist with the progressive online news outlet Manila (...)
MANILA, Philippines — The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to dismiss three officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict over their unabated red-tagging, in the latest suit against the government’s anti-communist task force. (...)
In his Nov. 30 public address,, President Rodrigo Duterte said he was not “red-tagging” the left-wing groups Makabayan, Gabriela, and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) when he accused them of being “legal fronts” and “members” of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), of the New People’s Army (...)
Two more National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants died in a pre-dawn police raid last Wednesday, November 25, in Angono, Rizal.
In what the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said was a “mafia-style execution,” a composite police team killed elderly couple (...)
Brief intervention at the webinar “From Repression to Resistance: Combatting the Lawfare against Press Freedom,” Manila, Nov 21, 2020.
On June 15, 2020, I sat in a decrepit, windowless courtroom and listened to Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa deliver her verdict. It started with a fundamental (...)
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) has expressed disappointment in the inadequacy of a recent resolution by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) concerning human rights in the Philippines.
Nevertheless, in a statement on 8 October the NCCP expressed its determination to (...)
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) is offering “technical assistance and capacity-building” to the Duterte government to help improve the human rights situation in the Philippines.
“The High Commissioner looks forward to working with the other UN (...)
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