Hello everyone Human Rights Watch have just published their annual report. Here is the Philippines section, which I think gives an excellent overview of what has been happening in The Philippines this year. Click herehttps://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/philippines
Subject: [CHRP-UK] Philippines second deadliest country in annual Global Witness HRD report Global Event: Global Witness will also be hosting an English language panel on 13th August, this will include speakers from Philippines and Liberia. You can register for this panel event here (https://act.globalwitness.org/page/64247/subscribe/1?en_chan=tw), there is a tweet here for sharing here (https://twitter.com/Global_Witness/status/1283371100412481536). The full
Amnesty International is deeply alarmed by the series of escalating attacks against Indigenous peoples in the Philippines. The organization calls on the Philippine government to put a stop to violence, arrests and harassment perpetrated against Indigenous peoples. The government should launch prompt and impartial investigations into these attacks, and prosecute and bring to justice those
Press Release6 March 2021 References:Cristina Palabay, Secretary General, +639173162831Karapatan Public Information Desk, +639189790580 Karapatan raises impact of terror law on women in PH before UN HRC Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
NEWS RELEASE6 March 2021Reference: Ms. Rochelle Porras, EILER Executive Director, +63 927 493 5747 BI’s final order to leave against missionary and labor researcher De Vries, unjust – EILER The Ecumenical Institute of Labor Education and Research (EILER) expresses dismay over the Order of the Bureau of Immigration in response to the Motion for Reconsideration
Subject: URGENT – PHILIPPINES: What do we know so far about the Bloody Sunday raids in Southern Luzon? What do we know so far about the Bloody Sunday raids in Southern Luzon? Timeline of events leading to the massacre and arrests of civilians in Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, and Rizal. PNP-CIDG, the perpetrator of the killings,
https://www.rappler.com/nation/robredo-statement-bloody-sunday-calabarzon-activists-raids-killings Vice President Leni Robredo did not mince words against President Rodrigo Duterte’s government in the wake of the “Bloody Sunday” raids in Calabarzon that left at least 9 activists dead and 6 others arrested. In a statement late Monday night, March 8, the Philippine opposition leader said there is only one way to describe
Press Release9 March 2021 References:Cristina Palabay, Secretary General, +639173162831Karapatan Public Information Desk, +639189790580 Karapatan: Did Harry Roque just admit that the Duterte gov’t is committing war crimes? International humanitarian law does not make mass murder legal, human rights watchdog Karapatan asserted, as the group questioned Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque’s statement before the media yesterday, March
