Karapatan renews its call for the immediate release of 23-year old Reina Mae Nasino, following the death of her 3-month old baby around 8:50 p.m. last night, October 9, 2020, due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
General Debate on Item 10: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Joint Statement Delivered by the World Organisation Against Torture
Interactive Dialogue on Item 5: Report of the Secretary General 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Oral Intervention by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Delivered by Roneo S. Clamor
Interactive Dialogue on Item 5: Report of the Secretary General 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Oral Intervention by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development Delivered by Cristina Palabay
While there are numerous human rights challenges that Facebook has to address, shutting down the platform, when it doesn’t suit the current administration’s wishes to maintain pages that incite violence and foment lies on activists and those that will unduly influence the election, is tantamount to censorship.
When the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law 48 years ago, the nation was plunged into an era of darkness as the horrors of a fascist rule was unleashed upon the Filipino people.
During the 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) in June 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet reported the widespread and systematic human rights violations in the Philippines. The High Commissioner found that domestic mechanisms have failed to ensure accountability, and that there is persistent impunity for human …
Duterte has pardoned and will already release US soldier Joseph Scott Pemberton, and now they want to free another criminal? Rafael Alunan must be delusional to even give this outrageous suggestion to free the ruthless butcher Jovito Palparan, who is convicted for the the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of desaparecidos Karen Empeño and Sherlyn …
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