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UPR Watch appeal for international support to stop killings in the Philippines

Karapatan Press release –https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/b74-niZqwko?pli=1 March 24, 2023 Ahead of the adoption of the recommendations made by United Nations (UN)member states during the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on thestate of human rights in the Philippines last November 2022, Filipinohuman rights defenders from the Philippine UPR Watch again appealed forinternational support to put a stop to

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Marcos government bombs its own people

Subject: PRESS RELEASE: The world should be worried about the Marcos government bombing its own people– Global Indigenous Peoples organization Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:07:15 +0800 From: Romeo Jara <romeo.jara@ipmsdl.org> The world should be worried about the Marcos government bombing its own people– Global Indigenous Peoples organization PRESS RELEASE March 22, 2023 Reference: Romeo Jara,

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Northern Luzon regions rally together for judicial and legislative reforms to address HRVs

Cordillera Peoples AlliancePublic Information CommissionPRESS RELEASE: Northern Luzon regions rally together for judicial and legislative reforms to address HRVs From March 20-21, 2023, Indigenous and human rights groups from North Luzon are engaging the Commission on Human Rights in a dialogue and are lobbying the House of Representatives to give attention and urgent response to

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Defend NL 7: Thank you for your support. We fight on!

Cordillera Peoples AlliancePublic Information CommissionDefend NL 7: Thank you for your support. We fight on!Joint Statement of the Cordillera Peoples Allianceand the Cordillera Human Rights AllianceL-R: Steve Tauli, Sarah Abellon, Niño Oconer, Windel Bolinget, Renz KangOn February 20, 2023, Sarah Abellon, Windel Bolinget, Lulu Gimenez, Florence Kang, Niño Oconer, and Steve Tauli falsely accused of

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Runaway Risk

PROTESTS AGAINST DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN MANILA BAY, PHILIPPINES 2022 Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment  DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THIS PAGE Executive summary The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the

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Amnesty International statement

Philippines: Ensure justice for ‘Bloody Sunday’ killings and other attacks against activists – amnesty.org Amnesty International is deeply concerned at the decision of the Department of Justice to dismiss the murder complaint against over a dozen officers of the Philippine National Police who were accused of the killing of labour rights activist Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion.

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Marcos Jr., NTF-ELCAC’s counterinsurgency program endangers workers’lives, rights

Karapatan Press Release –https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/q0lKb4OS00s?pli=1 24 January 2023 The counterinsurgency program that is being implemented by the MarcosJr. administration, which it continues from previous regimes includingthe Duterte government, through the National Task Force to End LocalCommunist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has resulted in gross violations onthe working people’s right to life and to their freedom of associationand

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