The Philippine human rights defender, teacher and single mother of a minor daughter, Zara Alvarez, was killed by unidentified perpetrators near her apartment in Bacolod City, Negros Island (Philippines) on August 17, 2020. The members of the Aktionsbündnis...
The Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte – Philippinen (AMP) expresses its deep concerns about severe restrictions of human rights in the Philippines, imposed in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and calls on the Philippine government and the European Union to take...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, published the report on the situation of human rights in the Philippines on June 4, 2020 in accordance with the UN resolution 41/2, adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on July...
Enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), a measure employed by the Philippine government to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infections in the Philippines, is supposed to protect the people, to provide safety and aid for endangered groups, and to lighten the pressure on the...
Like other leaders in the world, Duterte not only enforced police and military presence in the public space, but also described his government’s measures against the pandemic as warlike. The martial character of the governmental language culminated on April 1st into...
Starting January 2020, Christina Keppel will coordinate the Action Network Human Rights Philippines located in the Asienhaus e.V. in Cologne, Germany. She is looking forward to the Philippine-related human rights work, interesting partners in the Philippines as well...
