Filipino rights defenders urge UNHRC to take decisive action on attacks vs human rights defenders in PH

Press Statement19 September 2023 REFERENCES: Beverly Longid, +63 920 919 1820Clemente Bautista: +639171372930Heads of Delegation, Philippine UPR Watch Filipino rights defenders urge UNHRC to take decisive action on attacks vs human rights defenders in PHAs the world commemorates the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the Philippine Universal Periodic Review… Continue reading Filipino rights defenders urge UNHRC to take decisive action on attacks vs human rights defenders in PH

Filipino Rights Defenders Demand UN Review, Action on Deteriorating Rights Situation

PRESS RELEASEPhilippine Universal Periodic Review Watch (PUPR Watch) REFERENCES:Beverly LongidKatribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas+639279019830 (Whatsapp) Atty. Krissy ContiNational Union of Peoples’ Lawyers+639298207000 (Whatsapp, Viber, Telegram) Clemente BautistaKalikasan People’s Network for the Environment+639171372930 (Whatsapp, Viber) Filipino Rights Defenders Demand UN Review, Action on Deteriorating Rights Situation Geneva, Switzerland — Filipino human rights advocates seek… Continue reading Filipino Rights Defenders Demand UN Review, Action on Deteriorating Rights Situation

RIGHTS GROUPS DENOUNCE STATEMENTS BY NTF-ELCAC, PNP ON THE CASE OF JONILA CASTRO AND JHED TAMANO

PRESS STATEMENT 15 September 2023 RIGHTS GROUPS DENOUNCE STATEMENTS BY NTF-ELCAC, PNP ON THE CASE OF JONILA CASTRO AND JHED TAMANO Today’s press conference by the National Task Force to End Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) confirms what we have been stated as a stark possibility — that State actors… Continue reading RIGHTS GROUPS DENOUNCE STATEMENTS BY NTF-ELCAC, PNP ON THE CASE OF JONILA CASTRO AND JHED TAMANO

Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment as convenor of the Environmental Defenders Congress

PRESS RELEASESeptember 9, 2023 Independent probe points to possible State role in envi defenders’ abduction, green group says After joining the independent civil society fact-finding mission to locate missing environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment is increasingly convinced of potential State involvement in their disappearance. “To solve a… Continue reading Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment as convenor of the Environmental Defenders Congress

Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis

KALIKASAN PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENTPRESS STATEMENTJuly 1, 2023 Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis Geneva, Switzerland — Philippine human rights defenders personally brought concerns gravely affecting the Filipino people to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its Special… Continue reading Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis

Military bombings, strafing threaten endemic PH wildlife, key biodiversity areas

Recent military bombings, strafing threaten endemic PH wildlife, key biodiversity areas — green group Seven key biodiversity areas (KBAs) and forest reserves in the Philippines, inhabited by dozens of endemic species, have been threatened by indiscriminate bombings, shelling, and aerial attacks undertaken by the Philippine military within the first year of the Marcos Jr. administration.… Continue reading Military bombings, strafing threaten endemic PH wildlife, key biodiversity areas

Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (KPNE)Earth Day 2023 Press StatementApril 22, 2023

Laban Kalikasan! Earth Day 2023 Statement We, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment, join the broad masses of the Filipino people in the fight against the continuing environmental devastation and plunder under the Marcos-Duterte administration. Hardly a year into the new administration, the Filipino people have already witnessed how Marcos Jr.’s policies have ultimately worsened… Continue reading Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (KPNE)Earth Day 2023 Press StatementApril 22, 2023