Tag: Human rights
‘Meet up agad’: Filipino babies sold on Facebook as gov’t struggles...
Facebook has deactivated sites discovered by PCIJ to be facilitating the illegal adoption of babies but new pages can easily be created
Marcos’ first year as president met with protest
As of June 30, 2023, Karapatan documented at least 60 victims of EJKs in 40 incidents since Marcos took office
Pride Month: Campaign for the passage of SOGIESC Equality Bill
Address the suffering of many of those who choose to love distinctively, uniquely, but no less genuinely and passionately
Philippine group calls for children protection against SOGIESC discrimination
Four of five children with diverse SOGIESC are more at risk of experiencing physical, psychological, and sexual violence
PH counter-insurgency program is ‘immoral’, says church group
PCPR said the killing of the Fausto children and their parents “is so repugnant and repulsive that our indignation cannot be assuaged”
A fatherless generation
Fatherless, not because the fathers voluntarily left. No, they were involuntarily killed!
Karapatan calls to amend rules on protective writ
Numerous instances where petitions for the writ have been dismissed, leaving individuals under threat even more vulnerable to harassment
Bishop seeks justice for slain family of four in central Philippines
A Catholic bishop on Sunday lamented the slaughter of four members of a peasant family in the central Philippine province of Negros Occidental.
“I implore...
Greenpeace urges DENR to terminate deal with Shell
“This obscene partnership between DENR and Shell is a slap on the face of the millions of Filipinos impacted by the climate crisis,” said Khevin Yu
Media group decries ‘red-tagging’ anew
This has the effect of preventing members of these media groups from conducting their work as journalists and also puts them in grave danger
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