Credit to Author: nguno| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 10:25:32 +0000
Andie Reyes, a student at Columbia Law School, was chosen to work for the TrialWatch program under the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 07:01:14 +0000
A UN report said North Koreans working in hundreds of capitalistic-style markets are often abused and forced to engage in bribery to survive.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:38:13 +0000
More than 7,000 drug suspects—mostly poor, male breadwinners from Metro Manila—have been shot dead
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Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:18:00 +0000
BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN — San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza has called slain human rights activist and Escalante City councilor Bernardino ‘Toto’ Patigas Sr. “a martyr of the sugar workers’ struggles in the island of Negros.”
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:58:47 +0000
President Duterte warned human rights advocates allegedly concocting black propaganda against him and his family that they were “being listened to.”
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Credit to Author: Mustika Hapsoro| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:59:52 +0000
In a landmark ruling, a South Korean court has ordered lawmakers to revise the ban by the end of 2020.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:38:18 +0000
Panelo on Thursday said “innocent” victims caught in the crossfire between the government and its “enemies” should be compensated.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 03:25:03 +0000
The government should use its powers to protect the rights of the people instead of curtailing the public’s liberty.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:17:25 +0000
The group of martial law victims who won a human rights settlement in Hawaii against the estate of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos assailed the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) for rejecting a United States court-supervised deal that would have given them compensation from the proceeds of the sale of several paintings illegally acquired by former first lady Imelda Marcos.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:59:40 +0000
Brunei is to introduce harsh new sharia laws, including death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, despite a storm of global criticism.
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