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We refer to the notable unappealed and therefore final 135-page Resolution dated 21 September 2022 by RTC Manila Branch 19 Judge Marlo A. Magdoza-Malagar in Civil Case No. R-MNL-18-00925-CV (Department of Justice vs. CPP and NPA [hereinafter the “ Judge Magdoza-Malagar Resolution”] which (…)
In a masterful analysis that challenges both state overreach and revolutionary romanticism, Soliman Santos offers a nuanced examination of red-tagging that speaks directly to feminists and leftists struggling to build genuine democratic spaces in the Philippines. By carefully dissecting recent (…)
In this thought-provoking article, human rights lawyer and retired judge Soliman M. Santos Jr. makes a compelling case for a united, domestic effort to bring former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his enablers to justice for the brutal “drug war” that claimed thousands of lives. Santos (…)
After 6 years, 10 months, and 21 days, former Senator Leila de Lima is finally free. Judge Gener Gito of Branch 206 of the Regional Trial Court in Muntinglupa, Rizal, granted her bail after she posted a P300,000 bond. Her complete exoneration from the charges leveled against her by the (…)
When young activists Jonila Castro, 21, and Jhed Tamano, 22, who were reportedly abducted on the night of Sept. 2, were presented at a press conference by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict (NTF-Elcac), I felt great relief at merely knowing that the girls (…)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) can conduct a Philippine investigation and prosecution of a crime against humanity of willful killing against those most responsible for the extra-judicial killings (EJKs) occasioned by the “war against drugs” under then Davao City Mayor and then Philippine (…)
On its 62nd anniversary, Amnesty International Philippines announced its Ignite Awards for Human Rights [[https://www.amnesty.org.ph/ignite-awards] Season 3 winners following the theme “Protect the Protest”, Amnesty’s newest campaign on right to protest launched globally in 2022 (…)
“It is terrifying to think that someone as prominent as De Lima, a former head of the country’s Commission on Human Rights and an elected senator, could find herself caught in a tangled mess such as this, the hapless victim of an elaborate scheme to game an imperfect legal system. One can only (…)
Established in 2002 as a permanent international tribunal to promote the rule of law, ensure the protection of human rights, and punish serious offenses like genocide, aggression, and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) today is struggling to assert its role in a (…)
To see Leila de Lima’s case as independent [from its political context] … is to turn a blind eye to what’s been happening in the country … To see our freedoms as unrelated to hers is to invite the absurdity and the violence to continue.”
I wrote the above words in November 2019 to mark the (…)
’It is business as usual for us. We will adapt, adjust, survive and thrive,’ Rappler tells staff
MANILA, Philippines – On the last two days of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order affirming one more time its decision to revoke the (…)
Philippines orders news outlet run by Nobel Peace Prize winner to shut down
(CNN Business). Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday the Philippine government has ordered her news organization Rappler to shut down.
Ressa, CEO and founder of Rappler, released a (…)
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), through its Regional Office in Region IV-A, is already conducting a motu propio investigation into the arrest of environmental defender and activist Daisy Macapanpan on Saturday, 11 June 2022 in Pakil town, Laguna.
According to reports, she was arrested (…)
After five years of unjust imprisonment, one question gets more and more frequently asked of me, especially as the 2022 elections loom nearer: Why, despite all the controversies – of corruption, of abuses, of incompetence, of nepotism, of repression, of collusion with foreign enemies, and, (…)
Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.
Data collected by the Third World Studies Center of the University of the Philippines Diliman showed that in (…)
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 24 lawyers from 12 countries expressed their disapproval of the nomination of presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’ to the United Nations (UN) International Law Commission (ILC).
The lawyers are representatives of the International Association of Democratic (…)
“Activists have been killed over the last year, both by the security forces and by unknown individuals. In many instances, activists were killed after being red-tagged. In virtually none of the cases has anyone been held accountable for the killings.”
MANILA – An international rights group (…)
For those who took the path of the International Criminal Court, the judicial authorisation request of the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with an investigation is a “monumental step towards justice,” and a “ray of hope” for the families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the war on (…)
Reacting to the condemnation by four senators of National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Alex Monteagudo’s “red-tagging” of the Senate employees’ union, Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy falsely claimed that Philippine courts already ruled that there is (…)
The Independent International Commission of Investigation into Human Rights Violations in the Philippines (Investigate PH) “is an initiative of peoples from all over the world concerned about the state of human rights in the Philippines,” its website reads. It will conduct an inquiry into (…)
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