#HumanRights #DefendUP Workers with UP in fighting for academic and workplace freedom Only tyrants are hostile to academic freedom. Sila ang bawal sa UP, hindi ang aktibismo at malayang kaisipan. The Partido Manggagawa (PM) joins the UP and the whole academic community in upholding academic freedom within the UP system in particular, and for all…
#HumanRights #DefendUP Uphold the UP-DND Accord!Defend UP! The UP Manila University Student Council rejects the recent move of the Department of National Defense (DND) to unilaterally terminate the UP-DND Accord. We vow to remain in our long-fought struggle to safeguard academic freedom and the democratic rights of the members of the UP community as concretized…
#HumanRights #DefendUP AFP, Get out of UP! SPARK condemns the illegal and tyrannical unilateral decision of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to terminate the 1989 Sotto-Enrile Accords, which prevents the entry of military personnel into campuses of the University of the Philippines. The AFP claims that this was prompted by the presence of the…
#HumanRights #Justice Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the slow prosecution of Fabel Pineda’s rape and murder case Six months have elapsed since the rape and alleged killing of 15-year old girl Fabel Pineda by police officers in Ilocos Sur, but justice remains elusive for her and her cousin Bernadette Saniatan…
#HumanRights #Freedoms Duterte gov’t ends 1989 deal barring troops from UP The Duterte administration through the Department of National Defense (DND) ended the government’s decades-long accord with the University of the Philippines (UP) that prevented state forces from entering its campuses. In a letter dated January 15, DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the accord was…
#HumanRights #Covid19ph Ang mga nararapat na gawin ng gobyerno Hinggil sa Suliranin ng Pandemya at Kalusugan Tanong: Sapat na ba na matugunan ng pamahalaan ang pangangailangan sa vaccine para sa ”recovery” natin mula sa pandemya? Tugon: Hindi! Kailangang muling irehistro ang mapait, kasuklam-suklam at kasumpa-sumpang katotohanan na ang rehimeng ito ang isa sa primordial na…
#HumanRights #Children Can President Duterte Make the ISPs Obey the Law?Fr. Shay Cullen15 January 2021 The massive increase in child sexual abuse videos and images transmitted online over the internet passing through the servers of the Internet service providers (ISPs)- Globe Telecom and PLDT /Smart- has increased from 19,000 in 2019 to 47,937 in 2020…
#HumanRights #Harassment 15 January 2021 Philippines: Judicial harassment of Windel Bolinget Since late December, there has been intensified targeting of human rights defender, Windel Bolinget, in relation to a trumped-up murder case filed against him in August 2020. The case filed by the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Taguma City, Davao del Norte, names…
#HumanRights #Environment Groups Push for Zero Waste Approach Amid Plans to Build 300 More Landfills by 2022 Environmental advocates have weighed in on the plan of the government to construct 300 more landfills by 2022. Through a press statement, leaders of the Bangon Kalikasan Movement, Mother Earth Foundation and the EcoWaste Coalition appealed to the…
#HumanRights #Women #LGBTQI+ Statement of Commissioner Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit, Focal Commissioner on Women and LGBTQI+ Issues, on Victim-blaming and Gender Stereotyping Amid the Investigations in the Christine Dacera Case The Commission on Human Rights is deeply concerned and alarmed by the victim-blaming and gender stereotyping amid the investigations in the killing of Christine Dacera. These…
#HumanRights #Teachers P300 Communication Reimbursement, Dapat Umanong Ibigay sa Lahat ng Guro “Kakarampot na nga, Pahirapan pa Bago Makuha!” Ito ang reklamo ng mga guro sa communication expenses reimbursement na nagkakahalaga ng P300 sa mga guro at kawani ng DepEd na gumampan sa kanilang tungkulin mula Marso hanggang Disyembre ng taong ito. Sa isang YouTube…
#HumanRights #StopTheKillingsPH Statement of CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit on the announcement of the Justice Secretary regarding the release of the first partial report of the review of the deaths resulting from the conduct of anti illegal-drug operations The Commission on Human Rights acknowledges the announcement of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra regarding the release of the…
#HumanRights #PhilHealth #Workers SSS at PhilHealth premium hikes, dagdag pahirap sa mga manggagawa – EILER Dagdag pahirap ang Philhealth at SSS sa mga manggagawa at mamamayan sa plano nilang pagtataas ng premium para diumano hindi masaid ang kanilang pondo, ayon sa isang labor NGO. Giit ng Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), maraming…
#HumanRights #ICC #ExtraJudicialKillings On the impertinent and idiotic contention of so-called Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo with regard to the ICC Complaint This refers to the outrageous and out of this world pronouncements of Mr. Panelo (see, “Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo on the ICC Complaint”, PTV, January 3, 2021) with regard to…
#HumanRights #Children Discovering Human DignityShay Cullen9 January 2021 When I see the newly arrived children- all victims of human right violations and sexual abuse- healing and recovering in our Preda Foundation home and striving to be “good,” to be a “better person”, somehow thinking they are “bad,” I and the Preda staff continuously tell them…
#HumanRights #COVID19ph YEAR-END REPORT: 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 The Program on Alternative Development of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS) shares its comprehensive account on grassroots experiences during the pandemic entitled: “A Report on Southeast Asian Community Responses in COVID-19 Times”. This year, marginalized and…
#HumanRights #DefendPressFreedom Look back in anger, move forward with resolve31 December 2020 We can’t wait to be rid of 2020. As far as press freedom goes, this is the year the Duterte government went full force in its effort to intimidate the Philippine media – and critics and dissenters in general – into silence or…
#HumanRights I Unwittingly Applied as a Philippine-based Troll for a US Far Right Website On October 2, 2020, I read the online article, The billion-dollar business of social media trolling in the Philippines, and what it means for public relations globally by Alex Malouf, published on Influence on July 27, 2019. It reminded me of…
#HumanRights #StopTheKillingsPH The killings have to stop now or it never will The Alternative Law Groups is, once again, deeply alarmed and disturbed by the continued brazen acts of killings in the country—particularly the double murder of Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio perpetuated by Policeman Jonel Nuezca. This horrendous act of cold-blooded murder is not…
#HumanRights #FreedomOfExpression Tuligsa at iba pang mga Tula ni Rene Boy E. Abiva Pagmasdan mo aking Bayan ang akingnaging kapalaran nang ika’y aming pilitibangon sa bangis ng mabangis at malalimna bangin. Ang hininga’y samyo ng nabubulok nawaling-waling habang mahigpit sapagkakasiping ang paghihirap atkalungkutan,dagdag pa ang animo’y latigosa bagsik na gubat ng kalawanging bakalna krus at…
#HumanRights #COVID19ph Recommendations on meeting the marginalized’s needs in the pandemicby Eduardo C. Tadem ‘Congress should quickly enact legislation that will impose a wealth tax on the richest Filipino families to raise revenue for COVID-19 measures’ On March 8, 2020, the Philippine government declared a state of public health emergency due to rising cases of…
#HumanRights #StopTheKillingsPH #EndImpunity Sanlakas vehemently condemns the brutal and brazen execution of Sonya Gregorio and Frank Anthony Gregorio SANLAKAS STATEMENT ON SONYA AND FRANK GREGORIO’S MURDER Sanlakas vehemently condemns the brutal and brazen execution of Sonya Gregorio and Frank Anthony Gregorio. This was not an isolated incident as their deaths add to the growing number…
Totropahin o jojowain challenge | Filipino Newsmakers 2020 This Christmas, we continue to assert the #NotoRedTagging but #YestoHumanRights . Hence, we asked four millennials to share their thoughts on these Filipino personalities who made it into our 2020 headlines. Their reactions surprised us. Ikaw ba, tropa o jowa? Comment na! 🙂 Pls support by subscribing…
AMRSP STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF SONYA AND FRANK GREGORIO He comes. He ever comes. This succinctly summarizes the reason for this merriment and celebration of this Christmas season. Despite the fact that we are living in a time of pandemic, as Christians, we are forever anticipating to celebrate the birth of Christ in our…
Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) condemns the brazen acts of murder perpetrated by a man in uniform. It was swift and methodical. It was inhuman. It was a strong, hard kick on the face of human rights. These twin murders shake the very core of our humanity. Our society has degenerated to the…
