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PH rights violations continue to be pounded at UN body

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 …

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Andrea Rosal case: Mother and Child Plight Raised on UN Rights Body Floor

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 …

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UN rights heads to visit PH: PH Human Rights Group Discussed Concerns with UN Special Rapporteurs

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 …

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Claims Board should recognize 9,539 class suit members – SELDA

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 …

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Karapatan supports call of the Erecre family for peace consultant’s immediate release

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 …

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AFP told to shut up and stop muddling the issue on the death of Andrea Rosal’s baby

Today, Baby Diona was buried without her mother Andrea Rosal. The Court prohibited Andrea to bury her own child for "security reasons".  Yesterday, she was only allowed to visit the wake of Baby Diona at the Cathedral of the Philippine Independent Church for three hours, and “with overkill security escorts”. Observers counted at least 40 …

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