Rohan Zhou-Lee Tue, September 20, 2022 , Yahoo News Filipino activists will rally both outside the United Nations headquarters and nationwide on Sept. 20 while the Philippines’ current president, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., delivers a speech. The rally is meant to demand accountability from Marcos and the Philippines’ former President Rodrigo Duterte, whose drug war…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com November 8, 2021 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:23 p.m.) — Less than a week before elections to the panel, more than 150 lawyers raised their objection to the nomination of presidential spokesperson Harry Roque to the International Law Commission. A total of 152 lawyers wrote to nearly 200 Permanent Missions and…
October 7, 2021/ Report and photo by Rex Culao GENEVA, Switzerland—Filipinos in Europe held a rally at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in this city to press for an international investigation into harassments against human rights defenders and critics of the Rodrigo Duterte government in the Philippines. Geneva Forum as well as Europe-based chapters of…
Oct 7, 2020, Jodesz Gavilan Human rights group EcuVoice fears the government will use the programs indicated in the resolution as ‘smokescreen’ to conceal apathy and disregard toward victims while continuing to attack critics Local human rights groups on Wednesday, October 7, expressed “serious reservations” about a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution that…