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We, the seventy-six (76) participants from the different provinces of Mindanao representing the fifty-two (52) grassroots organizations of Lumad, Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers, actively advocating and working for the advancement and protection of human rights convened during the Mindanao (…)
5 YEARS OF PRES. AQUINO’S ADMINISTRATION: Deepening and Broadening the Culture of Impunity; Unchecked Networks of Command Conspi
SONA 2015 The Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) acknowledge and appreciate the passage of human rights laws in the civil and political arenas, (…)
For Rodrigo Duterte, the brutal death squads that have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people during his tenure as mayor of Davao City in the Philippines’ main southern island of Mindanao are not a problem. They’re a political platform.
Duterte publicly admitted his direct links to the (…)
Human Rights Watch commends the work of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
In addition to persistent politically motivated killings, Human Rights Watch remains concerned by killings carried out with the knowledge or direct participation and support of (…)
(Manila) – The Philippine government failed to match its rhetoric in support of human rights in 2013 with meaningful action to end impunity for extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014.
The tenuous nature of human (…)
The Anti-Enforced Disappearance Bill about to be signed (if not yet by this writing) into Law is definitely a most significant advance for the protection of human rights in the Philippines. The real test of course is in the implementation measures, including the deterrence and prevention of (…)
IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALL VICTIMS OF TORTURE, WHETHER BY STATE OR NON-STATE PERPETRATORS (26 June 2009, UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture)
On the occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture this June 26, the newly formed Committee on Accountability (…)
PAHRA
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
On the December 10 Turn-over of Declassified Martial Law Documents to Civilian Institutions through the Commission on Human Rights
December 11, 2011
Dear Editor ,
PAHRA commends the Commission on Human Rights and the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-249-2010 December 9, 2010
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day
PHILIPPINES: Institutionalized violations of rights due to a perverted system of justice
The biggest obstacle to the protection and enjoyment of (…)
The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition yesterday denounced the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the Freedom of Information Bill as a betrayal of the public trust.
In a press statement, the coalition branded as doublespeak the claim of Speaker Nograles that he did his best to (…)
Republic of the Philippines HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Quezon City
FifTEENTH CONGRESS First Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 2824 Introduced by Akbayan Representatives Walden Bello Kaka J. Bag-ao EXPLANATORY NOTE
This bill seeks to amend Republic Act n° 9745, otherwise known as the (…)
Self-presentation of the South-South Network (SSN) for Non-State Armed Group Engagement (http://www.southsouthnetwork.com) picked from its website on December 17, 2009.
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Harnessing Southern Perspectives for Peace and Human Development
South-South Network (SSN) (…)
“Torture is torture, whoever does it. The same is true of terrorism.” C. Douglas Lumis, Terror and the Terrorist (Penang: Multiversity & Citizens International, 2008)
The Philippines finally has an Anti-Torture Law, one which legally defines and penalizes torture, as well as provides (…)
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-056-2009
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6 June 2009 PHILIPPINES: Police illegally arrests, tortures three human rights defenders
ISSUES: Human (…)
They came to kill her children one by one. First was Richard in 2001, then his brother Christopher. Bobby was taken from her the following year, and Fernando in 2007. Now Clarita Alia lives in fear that Arnold, her remaining son, is next. And far from protecting her shattered family, it is the (…)
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-059-2009
http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/support.php?ua=UAC-059-2009
17 June 2009 PHILIPPINES: A labour rights defender is murdered; police shoot two men in custody
ISSUES: Human rights defenders; (…)
Not Only the State: Torture and Enforced Disappearance by Non-State Armed Groups
Position Statement on the Proposed Laws Against Torture and Enforced Disappearance
The Fourteenth Congress (2007-10) of the Philippines is poised to pass separate important breakthrough criminal laws against (…)
(Manila) - The Philippine government should investigate alleged “death squads” responsible for hundreds of targeted killings in Davao City and other cities on the southeastern island of Mindanao, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today at a news conference in Manila with Human Rights (…)
New information PHL 003 / 1008 / OBS 177.1 Arbitrary detention / Judicial proceedings / Ill-treatments Philippines November 6, 2008 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International (…)
Journalists and human rights groups urged the Senate on Wednesday to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), which protects the rights of suspects and prisoners when they are in the hands of authorities.
The OPCAT mandates international and domestic monitoring (…)
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