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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 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 (...)
’What I can’t get is why the so-called college-educated middle class are so approving of Duterte’s mass killings,’ says Aileen Diez-Bacalso in an interview with former congressman Walden Bello. Bacalso is the recipient of the prestigious Franco-German Ministerial Prize for Human Rights and the Rule (...)
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 (...)
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