Member organization: Tanggol Bayi

Tanggol Bayi: Filipinas suffer political repression, poverty under Marcos Jr.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders, joins other women’s rights activists and advocates of women’s liberation in expressing solidarity for all women victims of political repression, especially victims of extrajudicial killing, involuntary disappearance, sexual violence, abduction, torture and unjust arrest and imprisonment. We are likewise …

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Tanggol Bayi: Free our sisters, free all political prisoners

Tanggol Bayi, an organization of women human rights defenders, joins activists from KARAPATAN, Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), the Free Amanda Echanis Movement, Tanggol Magsasaka, Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, GABRIELA, Kilusang Mayo Uno, Bai Indigenous Women’s Network, and˰the Ecumenical Women’s Forum in renewing the call to release women political …

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Women’s rights group condemns Quiboloy’s reported “gifting” of women and girls to Duterte

Tanggol Bayi, an association of women human rights defenders, is outraged at revelations that cult leader and human trafficker Apollo Quiboloy reportedly “gifted” women and girls to his crony, former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte. This disclosure comes as no surprise, given Duterte’s well-known misogyny and contempt for women. With his garbage mouth, Duterte notoriously ordered his …

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Let us be one with the countless women of courage whose stories need telling

Tanggol Bayi salutes Filipino women activists who persist in the struggle for human rights, justice and accountability despite the prevalence of state-sponsored violence against them. In today’s forum “She Persists,” Tanggol Bayi features four outstanding young women activists who have defied the odds and survived repression through sheer courage, firmness of principle and the unstinting …

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Tanggol Bayi and Karapatan Statement on International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day

Today, on International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day, Tanggol Bayi and Karapatan salute all women who have tirelessly worked and contributed to the continuing struggle for women’s rights, human rights and freedoms. In the Philippines and all over the world, the recent years are the most challenging for women human rights defenders. Attacks and threats …

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