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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 (...)
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 Anti-Terrorism (...)
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 Today (...)
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 (...)
The European Parliament on Thursday, September 17, approved a resolution urging the Philippine government to drop all charges against Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa, former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr, and the news website’s other staff.
European lawmakers also call on the (...)
In the abstract and on its face, this sounds like a valid and well-intentioned idea. But in the context of the draconian Anti-Terror Law; the reckless proposal by the military to “regulate” social media supposedly to go after terrorists, their plans and recruitment; the official intolerance and (...)
The Department of Justice reports 279,166 cases of online sexual exploitation of children from March 1 to May 24 – a 264% increase from last year
A proposed measure at the Senate seeks stronger action against human trafficking aided by the internet, particularly child trafficking.
Senate Bill (...)
Zara Alvarez is 13th member of feminist human rights group Karapatan to be killed since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in 2016.
A human rights leader has been killed in the central Philippines in what observers and rights defenders have said is a continuing escalation of the “war (...)
• Anti-Terrorism Act cannot win against terrorism!
• Fight for A Democratic, Ecological and Peoples’-Centered Philippines!
It was either to let it lapse into law or sign. Duterte preferred to sign it last 3 July 2020. To veto is not his option.
The passage of the ATA or Anti-Terrorism Act of (...)
Amid widespread outrage at the guilty verdict handed to Maria Ressa, co-founder of the independent news website Rappler, and its writer, Reynaldo Santos Jr, many international civil society organizations have called for the case to be dismissed.
Maria Ressa on stage as keynote speaker of the (...)
The University of the Philippine Center for Integrative and Development Studies Program on Alternative Development (UP CIDS AltDev), with civil society organizations, grassroots communities, and scholar-activists across Southeast Asia and the globe, condemns the passage of the Anti-Terrorism (...)
These are only some initial notes relevant to, not a comprehensive assessment of, the new Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB, Senate Bill No. 1083/ House Bill No. 6875) poised to be passed as “The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020” (ATA) which would repeal R.A. No. 9372, the Human Security Act of 2007 (HSA). (...)
Compared to the country’s Human Security Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act drops the bar even lower
At a time when people are sick, dying, hungry, and anxious because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Duterte’s focus isn’t on mobilizing government to combat the virus and aid the poor. Rather, his priority is (...)
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.
Focus on the Global South joins (...)
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