“We need to keep the fire burning especially now that Duterte has utilized the entire machinery of government against the people.”
From defending the environment to defending human rights
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Bruised but still fighting for human rights
For someone who lost a father and a mother, and whose husband has been detained, Jimmylisa admits there were times she wallowed in depression. She said her very name, taken from her parents, reminds her to be strong. “How could I not live up to their legacy?”
Fiscal urged to drop perjury charges against 80-year-old nun
The RMP called on the Office of the Prosecutor to drop the case against Sr. Elenita Belardo so that “she can continue her advocacy of defending the people especially the marginalized sectors of our society.”
Bars around PAR
By DEE AYROSO
Will the political crackdown stop if the CPP-NPA is defeated?
With or without the CPP-NPA, there are just reasons for the people to resist and build a strong movement against authoritarian regimes. And paranoid governments would always clamp down on critics and dissenters whether the opposition is religious, the wealthy, foreign-backed, or communist.
Independent think-tank alarmed over ‘notice of police inspection’
“The Duterte administration is attacking IBON because our research, education and advocacy work exposes Philippine economic realities that the government wants to conceal.”
Government’s logic behind the series of raids and arrests
By DANILO ARAO, RONALYN OLEA, JANESS ANN ELLAO, MARYA SALAMAT, ANNE MARXZE UMIL, JOHN AARON MACARAEG, ALYSSA MAE CLARIN, JUSTIN UMALI, CARLO MANALANSAN, JOMARI ALEJANDRO III HERRERA Bulatlat.com …
32 nabbed in Bacolod raids freed
“The release of the majority of the people arrested during the raids essentially means that the charges against them are not true.”
Office of Bayan-Manila raided, 3 activists nabbed
“The narrative that there are guns and bombs in the said office, as what the government has peddled in the raids of offices in Negros, is preposterous and a barefaced lie meant to justify these patently arbitrary arrests and to silence social justice workers and activists.”
62 nabbed as Army, police raid offices of activist groups in Bacolod
Karapatan called the raids part of a “full-blown crackdown on activists and red-tagged legal organizations.”
Lawyers’ groups from 49 countries urge PH gov’t to stop attacks on Filipino colleagues
The attacks against lawyers “impair the ability of lawyers to provide effective legal representation, make
lawyers increasingly wary of working on sensitive cases, and consequently severely undermine the proper functioning of the rule of law and the adequate protection of rights, including the right to remedies and fair trial.”