14. October 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
At the age of 57, Cito Gascon died on October 9, 2021, following a COVID 19 infection. Since 2015, the lawyer had been chairman of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) – his term would have ended in May 2022. As a fierce critic of Dutertes so-called...
23. September 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On June 23 the controversial Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) listed the the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as a terrorist group in their Resolution Nr. 21, which they published later. Since 1992 the NDFP plays an essential role in tackling the roots...
23. September 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The release of United Church of Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) Pastor Dan Balucio on August 13, 2021 is a judicial ruling in favor of an unjustly accused and imprisoned activist. Balucio is part of the civil society movement in disaster relief, advocates for those...
23. September 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
More than a year after Elena Tijamo had been kidnapped, her family confirmed her death on August 30, 2021, which happens to be the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Tijamo was a program coordinator and the Community Radio coordinator of...
23. September 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The human rights lawyer Rex Fernandez was shot dead in Cebu City on August 26, 2021. In the late afternoon two unidentified motorcyclists ambushed Fernandez and his driver, who was rushed to the hospital. Fernandez was a founding member of the National Union of...
19. August 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, News
Anniversary of the murder of Zara Alvarez The Philippine human rights defender, teacher, and single mother, Zara Alvarez, was killed by unidentified perpetrators near her apartment in Bacolod City, Negros Island (Philippines) one year ago, on August 17, 2020. When we,...
