A Cebu City human rights worker who was organizing families of victims of the government’s so-called war on drugs was himself killed in a brazen daytime attack on board a jeepney Wednesday, August 8. Human rights defender and Rise Up-Cebu volunteer Butch Rosales, 45, was shot in broad daylight was on his way to Mandaue,…
Jan 12, 2021, Mara Cepeda Charter change (Cha-Cha) is once again alive in Congress and lawmakers are pushing for it exactly a year before the campaign period for the 2022 presidential elections officially begins. Critics are rightly raising red flags over the timing of this fresh bid to amend the 1987 Constitution. Cha-Cha is a…
Jan Milo Severo – Philstar.com, April 5, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Celebrities Vivian Velez and Rez Cortez led the launching of the Bayad Buwis Movement on Thursday aiming to get the P203 billion unpaid estate taxes of the Marcos family. Vivian said that the event, which gathered around 3,000 people in Quezon City Memorial Circle,…
We are aware that the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has been conducting investigations on the attacks and killings of human rights defenders based on the complaints filed before their offices and on the testimonies given during their public inquiry in September 2019. read more
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The close to a dozen container vans that arrived from Australia early this month were not toxic garbage but processed materials which will be used as fuel for a cement company’s manufacturing plants, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Thursday.