9. February 2021 | German Media Pieces, Human Rights News
Almost six months have passed since the murder of Zara Alvarez on August 17, 2020 in Bacolod, Negros. We remain in deep grief and also anger. Still, there are no perpetrators identified. Impunity in the Philippines must come to an end! In this radio piece by Radio...
5. February 2021 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Update: On Tuesday February 2, 2021, the first session of the oral hearing at the Supreme Court against the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 was held through seven opening statements by representatives of the 37 petitioners. The session began at 2pm and ended at 5.30pm. Lian...
29. January 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
The journalist Lady Ann Salem who was detained during Duterte’s wave of arrests on the International Human Rights day has still not been released. If she were to be pronounced guilty of the charges against her she would be facing several years of imprisonment....
29. January 2021 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Police and military joined forces on 30th December and killed nine leaders of the indigenous Tumandok in the provinces Capiz and Iloilo. Sixteen others were arrested. The police justified the killings by stating the victims were resisting against the search and arrest...
29. January 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News
After four years of enormous efforts the Philippine Commission of Human rights (CHR) has finally been granted access to nearly 2000 files of killings caused by state security forces through the “War on drugs”. These files merely account for 24% of the...
29. January 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On January 18th, the Department of Defence unilaterally terminated the accord with the University of the Philippines from 1989, according to which the military has no access to their campuses. The academic institution was vilified as a “save hafen” for...
