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20 June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland – Through an oral intervention delivered before member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last Thursday, typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda survivor Rev. Irma Balaba of the National Council of Churches of the Philippines strongly urged the Council to conduct investigations into the “slow, inefficient and inadequate response of …
"With BS Aquino’s 743 more days in office, and his Oplan Bayanihan ends with his term, we ask: how many more will be killed? Bodies of Aquino’s victims are piling up. Yet, Aquino has not owned up to his accountability," Karapatan Chairperson Marie Hilao-Enriquez said. “In all his years in power, Aquino has treaded the …
BS Aquino acquiesces to impunity as Oplan Bayanihan nears deadline Read More »
"The BS government must first cease and desist from its double-standard treatment of NDFP peace consultants, other political as well as petty common crime prisoners, to inhumane prisons to make way for a red carpet jail for senator criminals and other plunderers, " Karapatan chairperson Marie Hilao-Enriquez said on today’s hearing on Benito Tiamzon, Wilma …
Manila RTC denied CIDG request to transfer Tiamzon couple out of Crame Read More »
06/15/2014, Geneva, Switzerland – Law Prof. Philip Alston, newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and Geneva-based country missions of Ireland, Austria, Canada, Norway and The Netherlands met with Filipino rights advocates participating in the 26th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on the continuing extrajudicial killings, …
Vicious Attacks on Ph Indigenous Peoples Defending Their Lands Bared Before International Rights Community 06/14/2014, Geneva, Switzerland – International human rights group Civicus and Philippine-based rights group Karapatan issued an appeal the other day to the 47 member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to urge the Philippine government to stop the …
PH rights violations continue to be pounded at UN body Read More »
6/13/2014, Geneva, Switzerland – International civil society organization Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation (Civicus) and Philippine human rights group Karapatan, through Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, jointly responded yesterday to the report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women during the interactive dialogues at the 26th Session of the United Nations Human Rights …
Andrea Rosal case: Mother and Child Plight Raised on UN Rights Body Floor Read More »
6/12/2014, Geneva, Switzerland — Human rights advocates of the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights (EcuVoice), who are participating in the 26th United Nations Human Rights Council sessions, welcomed the information conveyed by two United Nations special rapporteurs on their official visits to the Philippines to conduct independent investigations on the human rights situation …
The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (EcuVoice), a network of human rights defenders and faith-based institutions, will be participating in the 26th sessions of United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland from June 10 to 17, 2014.
9,539, not 6,000. SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) challenged the Benigno Aquino- appointed Human Rights Victims Claims Board to categorically and publicly state that it recognizes the 9,539 martial law victims as those covered by “conclusive presumption” under the RA 10368, the Human Rights Victims Recognition and Reparation Law. The more …
Claims Board should recognize 9,539 class suit members – SELDA Read More »
Joseph Erecre and Mary Roxie Taneo, son and sister of Roy Erecre respectively, called for the immediate release of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines’s peace consultant. In a statement released to the media, representatives of the Erecre family said, “Roy Erecre is ill. When he was arrested, he just had a series of …
Karapatan supports call of the Erecre family for peace consultant’s immediate release Read More »
