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,...
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...
