The CHR Urges an End to Red-Tagging and Misuse of Counter-Terror Measures in the Philippines 🇵🇭💬 Commission on Human Rights Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc Calls for Accountability and Protection of Activists in an Intervention at the UNHRC. #HumanRights #Philippines
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No justice, no genuine land reform 35 years after Mendiola Massacre—KMP Justice for the victims of the Mendiola Massacre and the struggle for genuine land reform they died for remain a rallying cry for farmers 35 years after the bloody incident, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said. The farmers’ group that led 20,000 farmers in a rally near Malacanang
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#HumanRights #Campaign NUJP’s ABS-CBN campaign, Karapatan’s ‘resilient website’ win human rights awards The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and Karapatan won the two top prizes of the 10th Human Rights Pinduteros Choice Awards for their online campaign and presence in the past year. The NUJP’s Black Friday Online Protest #NoToABSCBNShutdown garnered nearly 39% of votes among 10
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#HumanRights #StopRedTagging On the incredulous red-tagging of Altermidya Network at the Dec. 1 Senate hearing ONCE AGAIN, state forces led the hostile red-baiting of independent media at the December 1 Senate hearing after they presented the Altermidya Network and its members nationwide as so-called communist fronts. The red-tagging of Altermidya journalists, online and on-ground, has intensified even more in the
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#HumanRights AFP, PNP raid Cagayan peasant leaders’ house The military and police raided the house of Anakpawis regional coordinator and Danggayan ti Mannalon ti Cagayan Valley (Danggayan) chairperson Isabelo Adviento midnight of Wednesday, December 2, but failed to find the peasant leader, a Cagayan Valley support group reported. About 100 soldiers swooped down on Adviento’s house at Barangay Carupian, Baggao,
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