Tag: Human Rights
Rights group, families urge gov’t to surface alleged NPA leader, IP rights advocate
A human rights group in the Cordillera, with families and friends, are appealing to the government to surface two missing individuals they ...MGA LARAWAN | Martsa at protesta sa Araw ng Paggawa
Nagprotesta ang mga manggagawa at iba’t ibang grupo sa pangunguna ng All Philippine Trade Union ngayong Pandaigdigang Araw ng Paggawa sa Maynila. ...CPP reports capture, torture and murder of Tiamzons by the military
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today confirmed Benito Tiamzon, chairman of its executive committee, and his wife, Wilma Austria Tiamzon, ...Women human rights defenders: defiant, but hopeful
“A woman’s place is in the struggle.”Trumped-up charges against IP activists rising — groups
Groups raised the alarm about the growing number of indigenous peoples’ rights activists facing criminal charges in Northern Luzon, saying the government ...PH accepted 215 out of 289 UN’s human rights recommendations. What were excluded?
The local human rights situation has not improved under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration.Abduction survivor to speak at Geneva ahead of PH govt’s adoption of UN recommendations
Abduction survivor April Dyan Gumanao will speak at around 5 p.m. (Philippine time) today during a side event of the ongoing 52nd ...Groups welcome conviction of policeman in teeners’ killing
Activist groups welcomed the conviction of the Caloocan City policemen for the killing of two teenagers in 2017, but said there is ...Rights group calls on CHR to probe rights violations in Rizal, Kalinga
Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the recent incidents of rights violations in the ...Anakpawis coordinator arrested in Rizal
“The state continues to disregard the rights of organizers and mass leaders, right on the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre.”
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