Gaea Katreena Cabico – Philstar.com May 13, 2024 MANILA, Philippines — Amnesty International Philippines criticized the newly-formed special committee on human rights coordination as an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy as it urged the Marcos government to prioritize genuine solutions to the country’s human rights issues. Malacañang issued last week Administrative Order (AO) 22 creating an…
Sep 8, 2023 Carlos H. Conde We hope the European Union will publicly and unequivocally rectify its positions and send a strong message to Philippine authorities that progress in bilateral relations depends on progress in human rights I will provide an overview of the main human rights concerns in the Philippines, starting with the “war…
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Jul 13, 2022, Michelle Lado ‘Are real problems going to be solved at their root if only the NGOs come to them?’ Aklatan Sa Bawat Eskwelahan was born in March 2015. It was a small initiative with the big dream of donating books to public school libraries. I’ve always been a literacy advocate and thought…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /May 24, 2022 The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) last week released a damning report saying that the Duterte administration has “failed in its obligations to protect human rights,” and has “encouraged a culture of impunity” through its brutal war on drugs. After examining 882 drug-related cases from 2016 to 2021,…
At the very least, red-tagging, by design, aims to keep people from speaking out against injustice
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / March 29, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Impunity among perpetrators has provided the breeding ground for extrajudicial killings and human rights violations to flourish in the Philippines under the Duterte administration’s drug war, according to Amnesty International. In its report for 2021 to 2022, the human rights watchdog…
By: Dempsey Reyes – Reporter / Philipine Daily Inquirer / March 23, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — For linking presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo with the communist movement, three separate complaints have been filed on Wednesday against Lorraine Badoy, one of the spokespersons of the government’s National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed…
By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan – Reporter /Philippine Daily Inquirer /February 14, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Sunday assured the International Labor Organization (ILO) that cases on trade union rights violations have already been filed or were being investigated by the government. An advisory body to the ILO earlier expressed “deep…