20. June 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The second trumped-up charge of illegal possession of firearms against United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Pastor Nathaniel “Dodo” Vallente were dismissed by the Regional Trial Court in Bohol on June 5, 2025, as the prosecution failed to establish facts...
23. May 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, News
The Iloilo Regional Trial Court denied on April 22, 2025, a motion for reconsideration in a terrorism financing case against Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group’s (PDG) staff and individuals affiliated with PDG, reaffirming a previous dismissal from March...
23. May 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, News
Pauline Joy Banjawan, a volunteer campaign coordinator for party-list Bayan Muna in Southern Tagalog and an organizer for the urban poor rights group Kadamay Southern Tagalog, was reported missing on April 26, 2025, after she reported being followed by suspicious...
14. April 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, News
Jasmin Jerusalem, executive director of the Leyte Center for Development (LCDe), reappeared in court on March 25, 2025, after charges against her were reinstated following an appeal by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG). The case was dismissed for...
17. March 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Indigenous People, Internal Affairs, News
Elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) attempted but failed to assassinate Lejun de la Cruz, a former communist guerilla, human rights activist, and nominee of the Magsasaka party-list in the coming May election. This was announced by Magsasaka Party in a...
17. March 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions, News
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) reviewed the Philippines in the context of the seventh periodic report in Geneva on February 19, 2025, on the state of the country’s compliance with economic, social, and cultural human...
