A support organization of families and friends of political prisoners in the Philippines talked about the challenges faced by persons deprived of liberty in terms of access to hygiene and other gender-specific services and how to advocate for the rights inside places of detention.
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No more Baby Rivers | Legislation, policy change for pregnant detainees
Today marks the 40th day since the death of Baby River, daughter of a political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino. The term cruel is an understatement to describe how the mother and child were separated and how it revealed serious gaps if not flaws in the country’s justice system.
‘Tao po kami’ | Kin decry the ‘inhumane treatment’ of Bilibid inmates
“The NBP is a prison facility, not a cemetery.”