1. December 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Ian Fry, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights in the context of climate change, made a series of critical policy recommendations towards the Philippine government on how to improve the human rights situation during a press conference in Manila on...
1. December 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) announced on October 18, 2023, that it had filed charges of alleged perjury against environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, who were abducted and surfaced again in September 2023. Castro and Tamano had...
30. October 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
After about 17 days in the custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the two abducted environmental activists, Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamayo, were released. The two activists were abducted by unidentifiable men on September 2, 2023, as they prepared for...
30. October 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On September 14, 2023, lawyer Maria Saniata Liwliwa Alzate was shot in broad daylight in her parked car in Bangued town, Abra province, by unidentified assailants on a passing motorbike. The perpetrators managed to flee. Alzate succumbed to her gunshot wounds in...
2. October 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Indigenous People
Following the abductions of Gene de Jesus and Dexter Capuyan on April 28, 2023, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has denied allegations that they are responsible for the enforced disappearances of the two Cordillera activists. De Jesus and Capuyan have been...
2. October 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
After six human rights activists, four of whom belong to the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), were designated as “terrorists” by the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) on June 7, 2023, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered – based on a...
