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Dear colleagues, We are circulating this sign-on campaign to surface James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr., who were abducted in Tabaco City, Albay in August 2024. Jazmines and Salaveria are among the 15 desaparecidos abducted by suspected State agents under the Marcos Jr. administration, as of August 2024. Please support the call and campaign to …
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Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. were abducted by suspected State forces on the night of August 23, 2024 and August 28, 2024, respectively, in Tabaco City, Albay province. James Jazmines, 63 years old, and Felix Salaveria Jr., 67 years old, are both cycling enthusiasts and residents of …
URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION ON THE ABDUCTION OF JAMES JAZMINES AND FELIX SALAVERIA JR. Read More »
I am Ernesto Jude Rimando, a 1982 graduate of Philippine Science High School and a former Mechanical Engineering student at UP Diliman, where I was a youth organizer. Throughout my adult life, I have been a staunch advocate for trade union and peasant rights. I entered University at the height of the anti-Marcos dictatorship movement …
An urgent appeal from political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Read More »
Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! There has been a noticeable increase in the Marcos Jr. government’s weaponization of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act against human rights defenders, political activists and other dissenters, signifying the rapidly shrinking civic space and grave deterioration of the human rights situation in …
Greetings of peace! Gerardo dela Peña, the oldest political prisoner in the Philippines, will turn 85 years old this April 2024. He has been languishing behind bars for the past 11 years. He is one of 799 political prisoners in the country (as of December 31, 2023), 90 of whom are elderly like him. In …
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Greetings of peace! Gerardo dela Peña, the oldest political prisoner in the Philippines, will turn 85 years old this April 2024. He has been languishing behind bars for the past 11 years. He is one of 799 political prisoners in the country (as of December 31, 2023), 90 of whom are elderly like him. In …
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July 26, 2023 Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! On June 18, 2012, the Philippine Congress passed Republic Act No. 10168 or The Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act. Under this law, a person who, directly or indirectly possesses, provides, collects or uses property or funds or makes available property, funds or financial or …
Photo by Aaron Favila/Associated Press Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! On July 3, 2020, the Philippine congress passed RA 11479 (An Act to Prevent, Prohibit and Penalize Terrorism) otherwise known as the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (ATA). With a total of 37 petitions filed questioning its constitutionality, it has gone down in history …
URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION ON THE ARBITRARY AND BASELESS DESIGNATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AS TERRORIST INDIVIDUALSJuly 21, 2023 Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! On December 9, 2020, the Anti-Terrorism Council signed ATC Resolution No. 12 (2020) designating the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army as terrorist organizations, …
July 19, 2023 Dear friends and colleagues, Greetings of peace! On January 9, 2023, Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court Branch Presiding Judge Aimee Marie B. Alcera acquitted ten human rights defenders — Karapatan National Council members Elisa Tita Lubi, Cristina Palabay, Roneo Clamor, Gabriela Krista Dalena, Dr. Edita Burgos, Jose Mari Callueng and Fr. Wilfredo …
