Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:27:50 +0000
Two human-rights leaders from the group Karapatan were shot dead by unidentified motorcycle-riding men in Sorsogon on Saturday.
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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: besguerra| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 21:30:13 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Three more groups that have complained of being unfairly tagged by Malacañang and the military as communist fronts have asked the Supreme Court for legal protection against threats to their lives.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 13:16:47 +0000
More groups have now sought the Supreme Court’s protection from the alleged harassment and Red-tagging by the military.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:17:09 +0000
ILOILO CITY, Philippines —Farmers’ and human rights groups on Monday called for the release of 11 villagers who were arrested during the military-backed police operations in Negros Oriental province on March 30 where 14 farmers were gunned down.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:58:35 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Friday stood by Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police General Oscar Albayalde amid calls for his resignation in the wake of the killing of 14 farmers in Negros Oriental last week.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:51:07 +0000
Karapatan has urged the Duterte administration to stop its “persecution of peace consultants” and go back to the peace negotiating table.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:27:13 +0000
The government’s move to have the United Nations delist more than 600 cases of enforced and involuntary disappearances in the Philippines, mostly attributed to government forces, is tantamount to an outright whitewashing of these crimes, a human rights group said on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:21:59 +0000
A member of a farmers’ group affiliated with the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas was killed in Zamboanga del Norte.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:53:18 +0000
Leaders of militant groups who were reported to have been missing since Monday, Jan. 28, were actually arrested by authorities to face criminal charges, the Northern Mindanao Police Regional Office (PRO) said on Tuesday.
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