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Robredo denounces Calabarzon ‘massacre,’ cites Duterte rant vs rebels

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

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Karapatan: Did Harry Roque just admit that the Duterte gov’t is committing war crimes?

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

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Why So Many Filipino Health Workers Are Dying Of Covid-19?

HuffPost UK  NEWS 12 April 2021 A reluctance to say no to overtime, crowded housing, and overrepresentation on the front line have left thousands at risk. By Aasma Day Filipino healthcare workers in the UK are disproportionately dying of Covid-19 as they are afraid to say no to extra shifts, campaigners have revealed. At least

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APWLD and its members strongly calls on the Philippine judiciary to immediately dismiss all trumped up charges against Lubi, political organisers, and human rights defenders in the Philippines

Karapatan 11 April 2021 Dear friends, We are forwarding you this solidarity statement from Misun Woo, Regional Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) denouncing the bogus attempted murder charge against Karapatan National Chairperson Elisa “Tita” Lubi, who was a governance member of the APWLD, having engaged in the network

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STATEMENT ON THE RECENT KILLINGS AND ARRESTS OF RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

KARAPATAN April 8, 2021 We have come together today to express our alarm, frustration and indignation at the ongoing human rights crisis in the Philippines. As the extrajudicial killing, illegal arrests and harassment of human and environmental rights defenders, development workers, trade unionists, lawyers, judges, journalists and opposition politicians continue unabated, we are living in

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