By KIMBERLIE QUITASOLwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The City Government of Baguio, together with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), recognized human rights defenders and advocates during the flag ceremony at the Baguio City Hall today, Feb. 26, a day after the anniversary of the EDSA People...
Abduction survivor April Dyan Gumanao will speak at around 5 p.m. (Philippine time) today during a side event of the ongoing 52nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva’s Palais des Nations.
Activist groups welcomed the conviction of the Caloocan City policemen for the killing of two teenagers in 2017, but said there is no reason to rejoice yet as thousands of other victims are still denied justice.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the recent incidents of rights violations in the communities of Rizal and Kalinga province.
“The state continues to disregard the rights of organizers and mass leaders, right on the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre.”
It has been more than three years since a joint military and police operation barged into the staff house where community journalist Anne Krueger lived.
A year since the killing of New Bataan 5, progressive groups here have reiterated the demand to bring both those behind the crime and those who executed the plan to justice.
A human rights group assailed the possible promotion of a ranking police officer that spearheaded an operation that led to the killing of nine indigenous peoples in Panay back in 2020.
Community journalist Nino Joseph Oconer and five other activists and development workers from the Cordillera and Ilocos regions appeared at the Baguio City Hall of Justice on February 20 to post bail for their temporary liberty.
In a decision dated Jan. 27, CA Associate Justice Lorenzo R. Dela Rosa said that the “granting of the quashal of the search warrants is only proper and just.”
“We are not persuaded,” ito ang naging pahayag ng Court of Appeals (CA) sa inihaing Motion for Reconsideration (MR) ng Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) noong Setyembre 29, 2022 bilang apela sa naunang desisyon ng CA na ipawalang-bisa ang search warrant na ginamit upang arestuhin at sampahan ng illegal possession of firearms and explosives sina Alma Moran, Reina Mae Nasino, at Ram Carlo Bautista o mas kilala bilang Tondo 3.
A farmers’ group in Cagayan Valley and a national human rights alliance assailed the bombing in Baggao town in Cagayan, following an encounter with communist guerillas, forcing villagers to evacuate.
While it did not come as a surprise to Renz as he has been subjected to numerous incidents of harassment and intimidation in the past, he fears for his safety and worries about how to tell the news to his family.