Victims of Arroyo Regime United for Justice
As Ferdinand Marcos is set to deliver his State of the Nation Address on Monday, Hustisya (Victims United for Justice) assailed the Marcos Jr. regime for its failure to attain justice for victims of extrajudicial killings both under its watch and during the Duterte regime. “One need only look at the outcome of the sham …
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Hustisya, an organization of families of victims of extrajudicial killings and all human rights violations, remembers with outrage the brutal killing of Bayan Muna-Iloilo coordinator Jory Porquia who was shot 14 times in his rented cottage in Iloilo City in the early morning of April 30, 2020. Forty-two activists who staged an indignation rally a …
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Hustisya (Victims United for Justice) joined environmental and rights activists in expressing support for Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano who are scheduled for arraignment today, March 24, 2025 at the Metropolitan Trial Court in Plaridel, Bulacan for retaliatory and baseless grave oral defamation charges. It will be remembered that Castro and Tamano, both community organizers …
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Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of human rights violations, is in solidarity with trade unionists and other rights defenders in calling for the immediate release of unionists, labor leaders and labor organizers who are held in various prisons and jails across the country. Of the 25 unionists and labor organizers arrested …
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Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of human rights violations, condemned the arbitrary arrest and detention of activist Myrna Cruz-Abraham, and joined her family in calling for her immediate release. “Myrna Cruz-Abraham should not be in jail, not just because of her age, but we strongly believe that the charges against her …
Hustisya welcomes the opportunity to participate in yesterday’s hearing on House Bill No. 10986, the proposed Anti-Extrajudicial Killing Act, at the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives. We welcome the authors and advocates of this bill for seeking to address the alarming prevalence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. However, we stress that …
Hustisya, an organization of human rights violations victims including families of political prisoners, express our strongest condemnation of a memorandum issued by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-National Capital Region (BJMP-NCR), dated January 10, 2025, directing the close monitoring of suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) within jails. This directive, …
Hustisya, an organization of victims of human rights violations and kin, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Tomas Dominado, who is currently detained at Pototan Jail in Iloilo, despite his serious and worsening health condition. His continued detention under dire conditions is a grave affront to human dignity and a clear violation of …
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SUPORTA PARA KAY TEACHER FRANCE CASTRO:PANAWAGAN PARA SA KATARUNGAN AT KATOTOHANANOpisyal na pahayag ng Hustisya, organisasyon ng mga biktima at kaanak laban sa paglabag sa karapatang pantao Sa panahong laganap ang kasinungalingan at panlilinlang, kinakailangang paalingawngawin ang boses ng katotohanan. Ngayon, malinaw na si Rep. France Castro, na nagsisiwalat ng katotohanan sa mga paglabag sa …
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Rights groups Hustisya and Karapatan firmly support the decision of massacre victims from Southern Tagalog to bring their case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) after failing to attain justice from Philippine courts. Those who filed a complaint with the UNHRC are Rosenda Lemita, mother of fisherfolk organizer Ana Marie Lemita-Evangelista, and Liezl …
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