About us
Team
Astrud Lea Beringer took over the project coordination of the AMP in March 2022. As a graduate of International Development at the University of Vienna and with several years of professional experience in human rights work in the Philippines, she is responsible for the AMP’s lobby, advocacy and public relations work.
Goals
The Action Network Human Rights – Philippines (“Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte – Philippinen” or “AMP”) uses lobbying and public relations work to influence political decision-makers and multipliers in Germany as well as at EU and UN level with the aim of contributing to an improvement of the human rights situation in the Philippines.
Since its foundation in August 2007, the network coordinates policy dialogues, campaigns and international events and publishes background papers about the human rights situation in the Philippines.
The main topics of AMP’s work are the numerous cases of politically motivated killings, the continued practice of enforced disappearance and criminalization of political activists and human rights defenders. The AMP also addresses the underlying structural problems of impunity and restricted civic space in the Philippines.
Member Organisations of the AMP are Amnesty International Germany, Brot für die Welt (BfdW), Dreikönigsaktion (DKA) – International development organization of the Catholic Children’s Movement in Austria, the International Peace Observers Network (IPON), Misereor, Missio Munich, philippinenbuero e.V., and the United Evangelical Mission (UEM).
Our work
- Monitoring of the human rights situation in the Philippines based on information from our partners, media reports as well as direct research on the ground.
- Informing the public about the human rights situation in the Philippines.
- Discussing the Philippine human rights situation with political decision makers and relevant state institutions in Germany as well as at the European Union in Brussels and the United Nations in Geneva, and in the Philippines.
- Support of victims of human rights violations and their families and colleagues through position statements and lobbying letters, among other things.
- Organisation of public events in Europe on political killings and enforced disappearances in the Philippines.
- Supporting our Philippine partners in their international lobbying and advocacy work.
- Publication of a monthly newsletter and press releases on human rights issues in the Philippines.
- Documentation of cases of politically motivated killings, enforced disappearances, and criminalization of political activists and human rights defenders.