Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:57:18 +0000
Top military and defense officials opted not to attend the Court of Appeals hearing on the NUPL petition accusing them of harassment and red-tagging of human rights lawyers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:24:13 +0000
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Thursday said he is getting tired of allegations of human rights violations in the country.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 12:35:10 +0000
Officials and residents of a village here on Sunday (July 4) accosted and briefly detained two armed men believed to be targeting a leader of a militant urban poor organization.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:33:55 +0000
Malacañang on Friday defended neophyte Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s remark that “shit happens” during anti-drug operations, saying that the former chief of police was just explaining that “accidents” are bound to happen during police operations.
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Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:51:55 +0000
Here’s the email Jigsaw’s CEO Jared Cohen sent his team after a Motherboard investigation into the team’s mismanagement.
Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:06:47 +0000
A human-rights group slammed the CA decision dismissing the amparo and habeas data petition for the protection of its members.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:29:55 +0000
Around 5,000 activists from Bicol were expected to join the protest rally and caravan in Naga City on Wednesday morning, to seek justice for the killings of current and former members of a human rights group and a militant group in the region.
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Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:17:20 +0000
LEGAZPI CITY—Two human rights defenders were killed on Saturday (June 14) in what appeared to be the latest in a spate of attacks targeting leaders and members of human rights groups in the Philippines.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:11:59 +0000
Opposition Senator Leila De Lima took a swipe at the government’s repeated refusal of an independent investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:01:37 +0000
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Oscar Albayalde assured on Monday that the police operates with respect for human rights and the rule of law, after the United Nations human rights experts called for an independent probe on “unlawful deaths” in the drug war.
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