PNP ‘tortures’ 4 Central Luzon activists; victims forced to lie down on the ground for 5 hours
“Armed men in (PNP-CIDG) uniforms came out of these vehicles and dragged out Buscayno, Patuñ-og, Ely, Millo and the van’s driver, forced them to kneel and beat them up,” Karapatan said. “They were then forced to lie face down on the ground for around five hours,” the group added.
Activist confronts ‘warmongering congressman’ advocating more US military presence in the PH
Malaya Movement USA member Marc Rodrego demanded California Rep. Darrel Issa retract his recently passed resolution calling for an additional $500 million in military aid to the Filipino government the activist said would only be used by the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government to kill fellow Filipinos.
Philippine labor federations receive prestigious US human rights award
Victims of red-tagging, extra-judicial killings and other forms human and labor rights violations, Philippine labor federations are this year’s recipients of the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Awards in Washington D.C., United States of America (USA).
Global rights coalition commit to continuing solidarity with Filipinos
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) said it condemns the United States-backed counterinsurgency program of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government that continues to commit human rights and international humanitarian law against the people.
Groups accuse Marcos Jr. admin of having worse desaperacidos record than Duterte
“[ICHRP] demands an end to the reign of terror on political dissent, and calls for the immediate surfacing of all activists who have been forcibly disappeared by state forces,” ICHRP Chairperson Peter Murphy said.
Bayan Muna: ‘We are victims of massive electronic vote shaving’
Bayan Muna said it will continue to protest what it believes was a “massive fraud and terrorism” in the 2022 elections as well as continue to investigate and uncover various fraud including massive electronic cheating.
Sr. Pat Fox condemns Duterte admin’s year-end rights abuses
“These senseless murders are a continuation of the string of human rights attacks we have witnessed this year against activists, lawyers, farmers, trade unionists, and even health workers,” Sr. Patricia Fox said.
Groups accuse Duterte of lying before UN on human rights
President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech before the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last Tuesday night, September 22, drew jeers from rights groups, calling his remarks on human rights “malicious” and “perverse.”
Duterte now a known dictator with EU Parliament vote, rights group says
“With the strong resolution from the EU Parliament, the Duterte government has now gained notoriety as a world-known human rights violator, if not, a dictator following the likes of Ferdinand Marcos,” ICHRP said in a statement.