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...
16. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders
The International Human Rights Day in the Philippines was marked by a wave of arrests. Among the victims was journalist Lady Anne Salem who was working for the red tagged alternative news site Manila Today. All have been arrested for alleged posession of firearms....
16. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Human Rights Defenders
Amanda Echanis, daughter of Randall Echanis, who was murdered this year in August was arrested on 2nd December together with her one month old baby- for alleged posession of firearms and explosives. The organisation Anakpawis claims that these were false allegations....
14. December 2020 | Human Rights News, Human Rights Defenders
CIVICUS Monitor, the Global research collaboration that tracks fundamental freedoms in 196 countries has just published their annual report “People Under Attack” 2020. In this report, CIVICUS has downgraded the Philippines from “obstructed” to “repressed”. Civic...
