Tag: human rights defenders

The groups also condemned the alleged “renewed judicial harassment” against 10 human rights workers, including church workers

Lawlor said human rights defenders face attacks, killings, judicial harassment, arbitrary detention and stigmatization campaigns

The bill, if enacted, would also establish a Human Rights Defenders Protection Committee

The passage of the proposed measure can be a “significant step toward the recognition and protection of human rights defenders”

The risks endured by faith-based human rights defenders increase as they incarnate the Christian gospel and the mandate of Church mission

Karapatan expressed support for the refiling of bills seeking the enactment of the proposed measure before the 19th Congress

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor called on the Philippine government to protect human rights defenders in the country

PCPR said the charges were only meant to harass the Church leaders and the human rights defenders

A devout Catholic and media magnate, Jimmy Lai, 74, of Hong Kong has been arrested numerous times for his pro-democracy activism

She worked with martial law survivors and rights advocates in pursuing the class action suit against the estate of the late dictator Marcos