The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has condemned the enforced disappearances of two activists in Tabaco City in Albay as it deplored these acts as grave violations of one’s fundamental human rights. The CHR Region V has already launched a Quick Response Operation (QRO) to investigate the...
An activist youth group mobilized in front of the Department of Education (DepEd) Central Office in Pasig on Friday, July 19—the first day of Sonny Angara as the new Education Secretary . (Photo from SPARK) Members of the Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan (SPARK) held a picket protest to...
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Irene Khan lamented the plight of two jailed human rights defenders in Tacloban City after visiting them. UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan during her visit to Tacloban City Jail (Photo from Khan's X post) As UN’s special rapporteur on freedom of...
Youth group Anakbayan said the youth should make Andres Bonifacio an example in fighting against "colonial and feudal society." Anakbayan and other multisectoral groups protested on 160th birthday of Andres Bonifacio. On Thursday, Nov. 30, Anakbayan and other multisectoral groups gathered in...
Women's alliance Gabriela on Wednesday, Nov. 29 organized a hand paint-themed protest called "Break the Silence" in Quezon City in celebration of the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day (IWHRD) and International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians. (GABRIELA) The group expressed its...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has started its own investigation on the alleged abduction of three activists involved in espousing the rights of indigenous peoples (IPs) in Oriental Mindoro. Based on report of Karapatan, a group of human rights advocates, CHR said that Alia Encela, 19; Job...
Progressive group Gabriela on Thursday, Sept. 21 denounced the plan of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to file perjury charges against two women human rights defenders, Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano. (Gabriela) This came after the NTF-ELCAC’s press...
The University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) expressed deep concern over the disappearance of its alumna, Patricia Cierva, and fellow youth organizer Michael Cedrick Casaño, as it urged the government agencies to "adhere to the basic tenets of democracy." (Courtesy of UP Manila Facebook...
German Ambassador to the Philippines Anke Reiffenstuel urged authorities to “fully investigate” the abduction of two Cebu-based activists, who resurfaced a week after they were taken on Jan. 10. German Ambassador to the Philippines Anke Reiffenstuel (Photo from German Embassy in Manila via...
Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered a thorough investigation into the allegation of two development workers that policemen tried to abduct them on Jan. 10 in a port in Cebu. Azurin said he had already tasked Brig Gen. Jeary Bearis, director of the...
MONTREAL, Canada -- The world's next global pact for nature is doomed without clear mechanisms for implementing targets, conservation groups said Saturday on the sidelines of UN talks, as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Montreal demanding greater action. Similar factors were widely...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said that it has “intensified” its search for missing labor activists Alipio Juat and Elizabeth Magbanua after the Court of Appeals (CA) apparently held the military liable for their disappearance. Alipio Juat and Elizabeth Magbanua (Courtesy of AFP) In...
