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 […]
Karapatan 7 April 2021 Reference: Karapatan Public Information Desk, +639189790580 Help us find Genelyn “Jen” Dichoso, Karapatan human rights worker in Quezon province. On April 5, 2021, Dichoso was supposed to go to a doctor with her daughter for a medical check-up regarding a suspected heart condition; she was not feeling well and was having
Karapatan 7 April 2021 Dear friends, We are forwarding this collective letter from the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) to President Rodrigo Duterte expressing profound concern regarding the recent extrajudicial killings of nine human rights defenders and arrests of at least four others at dawn on the Bloody Sunday raids last
UN Web TV 6 April 2021 Still image captured from video of Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra disclosing initial findings of a departmental review into the deaths of drug suspects during anti-drug operations in the Philippines to the UN Human Rights Council on February 24, 2021. © UN Web TV (Geneva) – The Philippine Department
International IPMSDL, Quezon City, Philippines 6 April 2021 Arrest warrants recalled vs Northern Luzon activists linked by cops to lumad killing Kimberlie Quitasol Philippine Daily Inquirer | March 08, 2021 A court in Tagum City, Davao del Norte province recalled the warrants of arrest it issued in 2020 for five activists in Northern Luzon who
dahas.upd.edu.ph/database 3 Apr 2021 (This is an excerpt from a case study written by the authors for the project, “Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines.” The project is a joint undertaking by the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman and the Department of
AMADO L. PICARDAL APR 3, 2021 INFO https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-human-rights-advocacy-integral-part-church-mission?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617424265 ‘In spite of these violations of human rights, there seems to be hesitation to speak out on the part of the Church and among religious’ “We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, and even in democracies in
By Ted Regencia, Aljazeera.com | 1 Apr 2021 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/1/record-number-of-filipino-lawyers-killed-under-dutertes- The Philippine Supreme Court, whose members are now mostly Duterte appointees, denounced the killings and harassments of lawyers as ‘an assault on the judiciary’ The Philippine Supreme Court, whose members are now mostly Duterte appointees, denounced the killings and harassments of lawyers as ‘an assault on
