Senator Sherwin Gatchalian underscored the need to uphold child rights education even as the age of sexual consent in the Philippines has been raised from 12 to 16 in order to protect children from violence and abuse. Republic Act (RA) No. 11648, which was signed last March, provides that those who...
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...
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's anti-feminist president-elect has vowed to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality. But actually getting rid of it will be tricky, experts say, and the incoming administration is already backing off its promise. Since it was set up in 2001, the department...
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.”...
GENEVA, Switzerland – The vote to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday strengthens the forum and sends a powerful message that "massive"-scale violators cannot be members, rights organisations said. The United Nations General Assembly in New York voted overwhelmingly to...
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...
Aspiring president Vice President Leni Robredo believes the reason why human rights are not being taken seriously is because it is not well understood in the country. Vice President Leni Robredo during the second Pilipinas Presidential Debates 2022 on Sunday, April 3. (Photo courtesy of VP Leni...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- The International Criminal Court has opened an office in Venezuela as part of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses during anti-government protests in 2017, authorities announced on Thursday. The ICC opened a formal investigation into the alleged rights violations...
Malacañang has assailed the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) after it called for global Magnitsky sanctions on the so-called "Dirty Dozen" of rights violators in the country including President Duterte. The International Coalition for Human Rights in the...
PARIS, France -- Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended, the UN reproductive health agency said Wednesday, warning that the war in Ukraine could further exacerbate what it called a "human rights crisis". Out of 121 million unintended pregnancies every year -- 331,000 a day -- more...
