“The Philippine government will become a laughing stock in the international community if it does not heed SR Khan’s findings.”
Journalists, human rights defenders welcome UN expert recommendations
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Special Report: Revealing the lies behind fake surrenders in Bicol
“These people are innocent civilians being tagged by the NTF-ELCAC as NPAs. Out of their desperation, they are using the civilians for their report on the counter-insurgency program.”
Reaping the benefits of unionism, the Nexperia Philippines workers’ experience
For workers in Southern Tagalog, repression is as normal as resistance.
Amid attacks, urban poor persist in fight for right to housing
The struggle for their right to housing taught them that they have bigger fights to win.
At Ground Level | Repeal Anti-Terror Law, abolish the NTF-ELCAC
This was the top-of-mind step that Ian Fry, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, urged the Philippine government to take as he wound up a 10-day official visit in the country last Wednesday.
Groups commend UN expert’s recommendations, urge government to heed advice
Rights groups said UN Special Rapporteur Ian Fry’s visit to the country “puts on center stage the sinister role played by the NTF-ELCAC and the dangerous impact of the terror law on the lives and safety of environmental human rights defenders in the country.”
UN expert bats for disbanding of ‘anti-communist’ task force, repeal of Anti-Terrorism Act
“I call on the Philippine government to respect this right and establish a truth reconciliation process to investigate the unlawful killings by the military, hold those accountable for these killings and provide reparations for those who suffered.”
Rights group denounces pattern of killings, other forms rights abuses
Amid all these, Karapatan said their group and the rest of the human rights community will not stop in its efforts to expose and oppose the brutal extrajudicial killings and the threats and red-tagging that increasingly target not only activists and other human rights defenders but ordinary civilians.
Campus journos, youth activists in Naga decry red-tagging, surveillance
“They [soldiers] should be the ones protecting our youth who speak up, not the ones repressing our rights to speak out.” – Aila Joy Esperida, editor-in-chief of The Democrat.
Ombudsman reprimands red-taggers Parlade, Badoy
NUPL Chairperson Edre Olalia said that while they did not achieve full legal redress, the decision “can be viewed as a loud warning shot, as it were.”
Karapatan says NTF-ELCAC should be accountable for abduction, enforced disappearance, fake surrender
“Now that the truth is out, we demand that everyone involved in the abduction, enforced disappearance and fake surrender of Castro and Tamano be held accountable, especially NTF-ELCAC.”