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, Uncategorized
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,...
19. July 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Pastor Benjie Gomez was arrested on June 6, 2021, in Nothern Zamboanga. Gomez, administrative pastor and Lumad advocate, had an arrest warrant for alleged murder. He was already arrested upon trumped-up charges back in...
16. June 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On April 15, the activist Jesus Passon Jr was shot dead by unidentified motorcyclists in Silay City in Negros Occidental. The series of extrajudicial killings in the severely affected Negros Occidental continues. Passon was a member of the Pasil Homeowners Association...
16. June 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
The rights group Karapatan together with women’s groups network Gabriela and the church-based CSO Rural Missionaries of the Philippines reached out to the Supreme Court on April 26, 2021, for the second time to grant their members protection due to the...
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...
