Tag: Human rights
Podcast series launched to fight online sexual exploitation of children in...
“The Fight of My Life: Finding Ruby” features the travails of 16-year-old Ruby from her village to enslavement in a sex trafficking den
UN Sec-Gen calls on China to follow UN Xinjiang report recommendations
The 46-page report found that human rights violations documented in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ assessment
Nelia Sancho and the saga of Filipino comfort women
Sancho’s death, along with the Lolas, highlights a sense of urgency for them to receive a formal unequivocal public apology
Indigenous peoples groups decry alleged dam-related construction projects
The project site falls within two adjoining Dumagat ancestral domains and will reportedly displace at least 15,000 tribal people
Justice remains elusive seven years after killings of tribal leaders in...
“The blood of our leaders was not enough, the government intensified its military occupation of our communities and shut down our schools”
Photos: Remembering the ‘Desaparecidos’
Families and friends of missing victims of enforced disappearances in the Philippines renew calls to surface 1,900 “desaparecidos”
Catholic missionary nuns tagged as terrorist financiers say they are ‘peace-builders’
The missionaries said they are "unapologetic and unwavering in our commitment to work in poor areas"
On Day of the Disappeared, kin of ‘desaparecidos’ call to surface...
The Philippines has more than 600 outstanding cases of enforced disappearances, according to a UN body on involuntary disappearances
Catholic, Protestant bishops denounce charges against Philippine missionaries
The bishops slammed what they described as “concocted allegations” against the missionaries
Cinemalaya’s award winning martial law-themed films
Chris Millado referred to filmmakers as culture-bearers “cutting through noise” of social media and revised histories
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