“The situation will worsen if we are silent… Now is the time to fight, to speak, and to push for genuine social change.”
Category: Human Rights
Tarlac shooting, not an isolated case
“Impunity. When the police think they can do anything, including shoot unarmed civilians at point blank, and when they show us how human life has very little value nowadays. #StopTheKillingsPH.”
International groups launch probe on human rights violations in PH
“This is most definitely a global issue…We must not allow the call for human rights to be hijacked. Accountability must be part of the justice and democratic system.”
Church leaders express alarm at ‘reign of unpeace’ during Advent
Church leaders expressed alarm and concern at the deteriorating prospects for peace as shown by the Rodrigo Duterte government’s demonization of human rights.
Groups condemn murder of doctor and husband, highlight dangers of red-tagging
“How many more people need to suffer the fate of the dozens of individuals killed – red-tagged as terrorists and then end up dead? Health frontliners like them who rendered invaluable service and sacrifice especially during the pandemic were not only exposed to a deadly virus but to a dangerous political environment.”
ICC finds ‘reasonable basis’ to probe drug-related killings in PH
“There is no doubt that the policies and operations under the Duterte administration are responsible for the onslaught of extra-judicial killings and other human rights violations under the ‘war on drugs.’ State officials and police forces were both brazen and confident that they would enjoy impunity in their crimes.” — Rise Up
Yearender 2020 | Rights activists, truth-tellers living in precarious times
“Rights are not won through silence, through fence sitting and inaction. Rights are won and claimed through difficult, arduous, beautiful, creative and vibrant struggle.”
NDF-Mindanao spokesperson killed in midnight raid
“Ka Joaquin was unarmed and was convalescing. He was detached a few months ago from the main office of the NDF-Mindanao to undergo medical checkups and to recuperate from partial paralysis.”
On International Human Rights Day, one journalist, 6 activists arrested in separate raids
Teddy Casiño of Bayan said the Duterte administration is the “number one human rights violator.”
Progressive lawyers push back, file charges against red-taggers
“The complainants bring the instant action in order to finally address a continuing wrong, to vindicate their basic rights, and to remind public officials that illegal, improper, unjust and oppressive acts and utterances, especially those vicious and virulent, are not without consequence. We also just want to do our work as lawyers,” the complaint read.
Duterte’s narco list, a death sentence
This does not change the fact that being added to Duterte’s narco list has become like a death sentence: seven of the 24 murdered mayors and vice-mayors had been implicated in the list before they were killed by unknown assailants.