Tag: Enforced Disappearance
Faith-based group joins calls to surface missing environmental defenders
“The pattern of abductions of environmental defenders... is deeply alarming and demands urgent attention from authorities"
BALIK-TANAW: Bearing witness to truth
The nature of truth is that it always belongs to the people who suffer and not the powerful... Truth is allowing suffering to speak.
Ecumenical bishops call to surface missing church worker, environmental defender
“We will not stop until our missing environmental defenders and other victims of enforced disappearances are surfaced."
Remembering on International Human Rights Day
On International Human Rights Day we remember that enforced disappearance is the most cruel among all human rights violations
Kin of ‘desaparecidos’ decry gov’t ‘apathy’
There are about 1,900 victims of enforced disappearance since the administration of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in the 1970s
No bodies, no graves, only lighted candles
’On the feast of All Souls’ Day, though I light a candle in our veranda and offer a prayer for him, I also prepare my son’s favorite dish’
Faith-based, rights groups hail court order for state forces to surface...
“The order is a step forward in finding the missing activists,” said Aglipayan priest Dionito Cabillas of the Isaiah Ministry
Photos: Remembering the ‘Desaparecidos’
Families and friends of missing victims of enforced disappearances in the Philippines renew calls to surface 1,900 “desaparecidos”
Rights groups call on Marcos to order state forces to surface...
Karapatan said it is "seriously concerned" that the missing activists will suffer "similar violations" experienced by activist Elena Tijamo
Not only a legal triumph
The triumph in the Karen and Sherlyn case is not simply a legal triumph, but a spark that brings hope to the families of the missing
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