21. April 2021 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Update June 2021: The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) released a report on April 26 with newly analyzed figures. In the last decade, a total of 176 attacks on lawyers were recorded, including 73 murders, the vast majority of which – 54 fatal...
21. April 2021 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Since 2016 the number of local officials being killed has constantly been rising. As of today, the number of killed mayors and vice mayors has reached 25. This is why detained Senator Leila de Lima has filed a Senate Resolution that seeks to further investigate the...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights News, International Institutions
At the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council from February 22 to March 19, 2021, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Mary Lawlor, presented her report on the situation of human rights defenders in member countries of the UN Humans Rights Council, with the...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Past Sunday, March 7, 2021, nine activists have been killed and six arrested in what has been called a massacre by the hand of state security forces. This Sunday will entry in the history books as the “Bloody Sunday”. In Calabarzon, equiped with 24 search...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
President Rodrigo Duterte has granted amnesty for the members of several rebel groups for the crimes they committed due to their political beliefs. The rebel groups in question are the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF),...
10. March 2021 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
Amnesty International UK has issued a report urging the UK government to take more measures for human rights defenders worldwide. The report focuses especially on the situation in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Libya, Russia and Zimbabwe. In regards to...
