16. December 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On August 29, 2024, five United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs issued a public letter condemning the Philippine government’s alleged abuse of laws to combat money-laundering and terrorism financing against 27 former and active members of the non-governmental...
8. November 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Filipino activists James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. have been missing since the end of August 2024. According to the human rights organization Karapatan, Jazmines worked as an IT expert for a development organization, among others; Salaveria was an enthusiastic...
8. November 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
In a recent report, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns that Philippine government officials and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) have increasingly been harassing trade union leaders through the...
27. August 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On July 30, 2024, the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) launched a two-day public inquiry to investigate the practice of “red-tagging” (i.e. branding individuals or organizations as “terrorist”). Among the participants were the UN Special Rapporteur on...
11. July 2024 | "War on Drugs", Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
On June 24, 2024, the Muntinlupa Regional Court acquitted Philippine opposition politician and former senator Leila de Lima of the third and final charge of conspiracy to traffic drugs. The court’s decision ended a trial that lasted around seven years, of which...
21. June 2024 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On May 8, 2024, the Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) filed charges against 27 former and active members of the organization Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET) for alleged violations of the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012...
