A lawyer of one of the groups that asked for presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s disqualification from the 2022 presidential race said that the former senator will be in power to decide on the myriad of issues that face his family, including reparation for the human rights victims during...
Human rights group Karapatan once again urged the public to reject the candidacy of presidential bet Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and vice presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte in the 2022 elections and beyond. (Karapatan) In a press statement issued on Tuesday, May 10,...
President Duterte said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin might just end up in the same jail cell due to the accusations of human rights violations hurled at them. File photo of President Duterte greeting Russian President Vladimir Putin before their bilateral meeting at the Vinpearl Da...
Bayan Muna Party-list has filed a resolution urging the House Committee on Human Rights to investigate the shooting incident that interrupted Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) presidential candidate Leodegario "Ka Leody" De Guzman’s sortie last April 19. The PLM sortie in Bukidnon right before the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año denounced on Tuesday, April 19, the United States State Department’s 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices claiming the alleged abuses committed by the country’s security forces. He said the report is a mere...
"The reports are nothing but a rehash of old and recycled issues." This was how Malacañang described the US State Department's 2021 Reports on Human Rights Practices in the Philippines, saying the United States should put its embassy officials in Manila to work to verify the information it is...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana challenged the United States government on Good Friday, April 15, to provide the details of the reports of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by state security forces in the Philippines. Lt. Gen. Romeo S. Brawner Jr. (right),...
With its shared goal to condemn sexual harrasment and abuse, various women-led organizations, on Tuesday, April 12, publicly denounced the “black operations” that aims to destroy women candidates, their families, and supporters by spreading deep-fake and lewd photographs and videos. “The...
Karapatan, a human rights group in the Philippines, called on the suspension of the Facebook pages and accounts of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and its spokesperson Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy-Partosa for being “instruments of disinformation.”...
UniTeam Senate bet and House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rodante Marcoleta has issued a challenge to lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc: condemn the actions of rebel groups. UniTeam Senate bet Rep. Rodante Marcoleta “We are talking about the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte about these Makabayan bloc....
To protect human rights in the Philippines, labor leader and Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) presidential candidate Leodegario ‘Ka Leody” De Guzman seeks to end the acts of extrajudicial killing, red-tagging, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), and the...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said the Philippines has an obligation to call for an end and join other countries in condemning the repression in Myanmar due to its own experience under Martial Law. Lacson pointed this out when he and other presidential bets were asked...
