A human rights organization asked Congress to increase the medical allowance for persons deprived of liberty (PDL) to go along with the proposed increase in their daily food budget. As the House of Representatives tackles the Department of Justice (DOJ) budget today, political detainee...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) again called on the Philippine government to stop red-tagging after another United Nations (UN) expert noted its practice by Philippine security forces. Reacting to UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene...
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) blasted government claims that more than half of all media killings in the Philippines have been resolved. Reacting to government claims to visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression...
A human rights organization and a media group called claims by the Department of Justice (DOJ) that red-tagging is not official government policy is, simply, lying. “Simply doublespeak,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said in reaction to DOJ’s...
Media groups and rights defenders condemned government’s top media security official, calling his allegation that a jailed journalist is active in terrorist groups a classic example of red-tagging. Altermidya and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines...
Survivors of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial law dubbed as deceitful and misleading the advertisement alleging the 1987 Philippine Constitution is to blame for the country’s poverty and the government’s corruption. The group Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses...
The Philippine government has employed its counter-terrorism financing oversight powers in a broad and arbitrary manner against non-profit organisations and individuals.
The CPP criticized claims by other government officials that the joint statement was signed with the aim of ending the CPP-led armed struggle.
Hundreds of overseas Filipino workers in New Zealand lost their jobs just before Christmas and are asking the Philippine government for continuing financial assistance as they look for new jobs this New Year.
PISTON called on jeepney drivers and operators to continue plying their routes in defiance of the government’s deadline on franchise consolidation.
Militant drivers and operators urged the Supreme Court to expedite the decision on their petition for a temporary restraining order on the implementation of the year-end jeepney franchise consolidation deadline.
The 55-year old Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) called on its members to launch a rectification movement to recover from admitted setbacks suffered in recent years.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) declared a two-day ceasefire effective Christmas Day and its 55th Anniversary, December 25 and 26, respectively. In an announcement on its website, the CPP Central Committee as well as the New People’s Army (NPA) National...