1. January 2014
The first AMP Human Rights Report of 2014 provides examples of political killings, disappearances, torture, and trumped-up charges against political activists which underline that these are not isolated cases but expressions of massive political repression. ...
6. February 2013
By means of fabricated charges and illegal arrests, the Philippine state tried to denounce left activists and human rights defenders. The AMP factsheet provides an overview of the situation of criminalization of human rights defenders in the Philippines in 2013....
2. November 2012
On March 20, 2012, the AMP expressed in a letter of appeal to the former Department of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima its utmost concern about the killing of human rights defender Jimmy Liguyon, who was shot dead outside his home in Barangay Dao, reportedly by a...
5. April 2012
Since the last UPR in 2008 hundreds of human rights defenders have been killed, abducted, or tortured by armed security forces in the Philippines. The victims are journalists, members of political parties, church people, civil society members, trade unionists, or...
1. December 2011
The proceedings of the conference “Human Rights in the Philippines – Trends and Challenges under the Aquino Government” from 29 to 30 June 2011 in Berlin illustrates contributions by renowned human rights defenders, which reveal the manifold and...
