20. March 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Six members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) visited the Philippines from 22-24 February 2023 for an assessment of the current human rights situation and readiness of the Philippine government to act. The EU delegation met...
13. February 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The Department of Justice (DOJ) junked charges against 17 police officers on January 16, 2023, for the murder of labor leader and general secretary of BAYAN-Cavite Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion in Cavite. The murder case occurred as part of the so-called...
13. February 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
In a statement issued on January 24, 2023, the AMP condemned the recent abduction of 28-year-old development worker Dyan Gumanao and 27-year-old labor rights activist Armand Dayoha in Cebu City. On January 10, 2023, Gumanao and Dayoha were forcibly abducted in broad...
23. January 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
A Quezon City court acquitted on January 9, 2023, ten activists who were charged with perjury by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in 2020. The ten activists of the three human rights organizations (Karapatan, Gabriela, and Rural Missionaries of...
15. December 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
The Philippine government has invited the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, and arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, to the Philippines for 2023 as part of the United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP). The UNJP is a technical cooperation between the...
20. November 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
According to the Philippine National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), 59 lawyers were killed during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s term in office (2016-2022). The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego García-Sayán,...
