21. April 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
In March 2021, the organisation Investigate PH has issued a report on the situation of human rights in the Philippines. Investigate PH, a international coalition of civil, political and legal organizations, was founded in January 2021 after the latest resolution of UN...
21. April 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) asked the United Nations Special Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, to investigate the killings of lawyers in the Philippines. According to the NUPL 61 lawyers, prosecutors and...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Past Sunday, March 7, 2021, nine activists have been killed and six arrested in what has been called a massacre by the hand of state security forces. This Sunday will entry in the history books as the “Bloody Sunday”. In Calabarzon, equiped with 24 search...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Amnesty International UK has issued a report urging the UK government to take more measures for human rights defenders worldwide. The report focuses especially on the situation in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Libya, Russia and Zimbabwe. In regards to...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Senator Leila De Lima has been imprisoned since February 2017. She is being accused of being involved in illegal drug trade. De Lima is convinced that these accusations are a reaction to her investigations of Dutertes human rights violations in his bloody war against...
16. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders and rights activists have gathered in front of the cathedral of Cologne, Germany on 10th December. The philippinenbüro e.V. which is based in Cologne organised the protest in order to remember the many victims of human rights violations in the...
