Tag: Human rights
Priest who documented Philippine killings welcome ICC probe into Duterte’s drug...
The priest said the ICC decision is a “welcome news especially for the families of victims of extrajudicial killings"
Hong Kong police order Tiananmen vigil group to delete websites
The Hong Kong Alliance is the latest opposition group to be targeted by a sweeping national security law
Human rights lawyer gunned down in southern Philippines
Lawyer Juan Macababbad, vice chairperson of the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao, was shot dead in front of his house
Greenpeace calls for ‘urgent protection’ of Philippine environmental defenders
“Companies and governments must be held accountable for the violence and persecution of land and environmental defenders,” said Greenpeace
Amnesty International calls for recognition of ‘right to healthy environment’
Failure to address the impacts of the climate crisis “may well be the biggest inter-generational human rights violation in history”
Silent murmurs of a benighted people
We are a people united only by a collective helplessness and paralysis that is expressed so loudly in silent murmurs
Probe into rights violations in Philippines alleges ‘damning evidence’ against Duterte
Investigate Ph called on the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, Sept. 13, to conduct a probe into alleged rights abuses in the Philippines
Philippine Catholic bishops condemn ‘murderous and corrupt public order’
The Church leaders, however, called for “non-violent” actions, saying that it is “the only morally acceptable resistance.”
Pastoral message on the ‘culture of murder and plunder’ from northern...
The Church leaders urge the faithful to “resist” what they described as “a murderous and corrupt public order”
Catholic bishop in central Philippines condemns ‘senseless murder’ of lawyer
Lawyer Rex Jesus Mario Fernandez was killed by a lone gunman in Cebu City on August 26