By a Transport Union Activist On 23 August 2024, James Jazmines attended the 66th birthday dinner of his friend Felix Salaveria Jr. at a restaurant in Tabaco in Alabay Province, in the Philippines along with other members of Cycling Advocates (CYCAD) a cycling club which promotes bicycle riding and supports environmental campaigning in the town. […]
Press Statement May 18, 2024Brussels, Belgium (May 17-18) The International People’s Tribunal in Brussels heard harrowing testimony from victims and experts detailing widespread human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Philippine government and its military forces under the Marcos and Duterte Regimes and backed by the U.S. government. “The International
WeekInRights@takeaction.hrw.org The Philippine Supreme Court issued a major ruling this week declaring “red-tagging” – accusing individuals and groups of supporting the country’s communist insurgency – a threat to people’s life, liberty, and security. Rights groups, including HRW, have long pointed out how the government uses red-tagging to harass, threaten, and at times assault or kill critics of
Reference: Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, +63917-3162831 Karapatan Public Information Desk, +63918-9790580 KARAPATAN scores new cases vs activists using twin terror laws KARAPATAN deplores the latest examples of the Marcos Jr. regime’s weaponization of the twin terror laws – Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and Republic Act No. 10168
Press Release Contact: Danilova MolintasPhone: +639602315340Date: May 3, 2024 Kalikasan PNE condemns fabricated charges against anti-reclamation environmental defender ‘Ansie,’ other activists Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, May 3, 2024 — A militant national network of grassroots environmental groups denounced the trumped-up charges filed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against environmental defender Anasusa “Ansie”
April 28, 2024 Environmental Defenders Face Trumped-Up Financing Terrorism Charges. Kalikasan PNE and ENVIDEFCON condemn this. In an alarming development, two young human rights defenders from Quezon are now facing trumped-up charges of financing terrorism. Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and the Environmental Defenders Congress strongly condemns this unjust targeting. Tanggol Quezon Spokesperson Paul
International Humanitarian Law, or IHL, is a set of rules which seek to limit the effects of armed conflict and to reduce the human suffering caused by it. In the context of war, IHL calls for the protection of civilians, service providers like medical personnel, and persons who were previously involved in the armed conflict
Subject: My review of “Some People Need Killing” Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 16:29:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Walden Bello (via aepf Mailing List) <aepf@lists.riseup.net> Reply-To: waldenbello@yahoo.com Hi friends: Attached is my review of Patricia Evangelista’s bloody blockbuster “Some People Need Killing,” an account of genocide during the Duterte years in the Philippines. A Memoir of Murder