Groups welcome bill to penalize red-tagging
“While a law penalizing red-tagging is welcome, the draconian Anti-Terrorism Act violates our basic human rights, including the right to a free press.”
Groups welcome bill to penalize red-tagging
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Rights groups ask UN to set up mechanism to end violence, impunity in PH
Rights groups ask UN to set up mechanism to end violence, impunity in PH
“It is very clear that no amount of technical assistance or capacity building will end the killings as the President and top government officials continue to incite murder and violence as official policy.”
Renalyn Tejero, student leader turned human rights worker
Renalyn Tejero, student leader turned human rights worker
“There is no question that these charges against her are fabricated and are only obviously meant to threaten her, to silence her from continuing her human rights work."
Supreme Court condemns killings, threats against lawyers and judges
Supreme Court condemns killings, threats against lawyers and judges
“At this crucial juncture when the other institutions have defaulted on us, we fervently welcome these bold and unequivocal declarations, initial steps and further plans from our very own refuge.”
After bloody Sunday, lawyers call for review of issuance of search warrants
After bloody Sunday, lawyers call for review of issuance of search warrants
“The multiple deaths resulting from the execution of search warrants, the claims that the police planted evidence in the course of the search, and the perceived misuse of court processes to attack activists and dissenters all demand comprehensive reforms in the issuance of search warrants and their implementation."
Majority of COVID-19 loans not used for pandemic response
Majority of COVID-19 loans not used for pandemic response
Aside from the fact that the biggest chunk was not used specifically for the COVID-19 response, it is the taxpayers who will suffer the most in paying off these debts.
Public health care gets pittance from huge COVID-19 loans
Public health care gets pittance from huge COVID-19 loans
“We are puzzled. Where did the huge amount of debts go? There is no transparency how the Bayanihan 1 and 2 funds had been spent.”
Maliit na bagay? | Health workers’ lives not a small thing
Maliit na bagay? | Health workers’ lives not a small thing
A year since the world’s longest and strictest lockdown was imposed, health workers here in the Philippines are still dying due to the dreaded virus – the latest is a unionist in a government hospital.
Southern Tagalog braces for ‘second wave’ of arrests following Bloody Sunday
Southern Tagalog braces for ‘second wave’ of arrests following Bloody Sunday
“How can [the judiciary] distance themselves [from the police action] if they themselves signed the documents used to make the operations seem legitimate?” - Defend Southern Tagalog
Global mission finds local remedies for rights victims in PH illusory
Global mission finds local remedies for rights victims in PH illusory
“Domestic remedies have been ineffective at providing redress and at halting continued abuses. The power imbalance between victims of state violence, and perpetrators who have the backing of government apparatuses, is grave. Structures to redress this imbalance are lacking.”
#DutertePalpak: Progressive groups protest Duterte’s inefficient COVID-19 response
#DutertePalpak: Progressive groups protest Duterte’s inefficient COVID-19 response
"Duterte failed. Duque failed. They should be held accountable."
Relief volunteers, advocates say junking of charges ‘a vindication’
Relief volunteers, advocates say junking of charges ‘a vindication’
“Time and again, we have reminded authorities that neither the pandemic nor their grave ignorance of the law or dumb over-zealousness is an excuse to trample upon basic rights and curtail freedoms.” -- NUPL
A year since lockdown, the poor struggles against homelessness
A year since lockdown, the poor struggles against homelessness
Instead of addressing homelessness, the Philippine government has recently lifted its earlier memorandum, ordering the postponement of demolition and eviction of poor communities.
Chai Lemita-Evangelista, youth leader and community organizer
Chai Lemita-Evangelista, youth leader and community organizer
She graduated in 2014 feeling on top of the world, not because she was one step closer to escaping the life she left behind in Batangas, but because she finally understood her role as a daughter and a daughter of the nation.
A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols
A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols
While government officials and personalities have breached protocols and got away with it, nearly 600,000 Filipinos, mostly poor, have been warned, ticketed, fined, and charged over quarantine violations.
After a year of lockdown: Gov’t mishandles pandemic response
After a year of lockdown: Gov’t mishandles pandemic response
For weeks now, the Philippines is experiencing a surge in the number of daily COVID-19 cases. The government, however, is responding to the pandemic as if it were only yesterday – still clueless, still grappling, still militarist.
Families demand justice for slain loved ones, arrested leaders
Families demand justice for slain loved ones, arrested leaders
"You have no mercy. All you do is kill, kill, kill."
Social welfare department releases Lumad child days after court order
Social welfare department releases Lumad child days after court order
“This is unacceptable. How can government social workers refuse to heed the orders of the court? Beyond the legal imperative, how can government social workers not empathize with the sufferings of the child and the father whose reunion has been blocked again and again?”
State forces’ practice of holding remains shows ‘appalling inhumanity’ – rights groups
State forces’ practice of holding remains shows ‘appalling inhumanity’ – rights groups
“The appalling inhumanity of the State does not end with their gruesome, extrajudicial killings: they continue to deny the remains of their victims from death to funeral while putting their families to the torturous experience and misery of having to beg on their knees for the remains of their own loved ones.”
Manny Asuncion: A worker who embraced the bigger fight for social justice
Manny Asuncion: A worker who embraced the bigger fight for social justice
Manny Asuncion was the very definition of an organizer: patient with the masses, always willing to serve the people, and filled with righteous anger against injustice.
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