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...
18. July 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Human rights groups such as Karapatan and the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance opposed a resolution (No. 2023-04) passed in April 2023 by the Kalinga Provincial Task Force To End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC). According to the memorandum issued June 13,...
18. July 2023 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Human rights organization Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to launch an independent investigation into the killing of Roly and Emelda Fausto and their two minor sons, Ben and Ravin Fausto. The Fausto family was found shot dead in their home in...
