Friends help us appeal for the release of Nitoy Itaas. Paano ka makakatulong? Help us by: 1. TALK ABOUT NITOY TO 2 OF YOUR FRIENDS 2. SIGN AND SHARE PETITION: sign this petition at change.org and ask 2 of your friends to sign too. 3. LIKE AND SHARE: Visit and like #IpakilalaSiNitoyKayPNoy!” FB page You can…
A HUMANITARIAN APPEAL TO U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Obama: I write this letter to appeal for your urgent and personal intervention in the spirit of respect for human dignity as it is understood all over…
#FREEOURDEFENDERS! Free all political prisoners! Government keeps denying the existence of political prisoners. We need to assert the truth! Join us in a call to #FREEOURDEFENDERS! Free all political prisoners! In previous statement, PNoy’s spokesperson Lacierda declared that ‘We have no political prisoners.’ Then the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to deliver Government’s commitment to…
Pol Prisoner Holds Hunger Strike for Fr.Romano and All Victims of Rights Abuse by yoyong, hrdefenders.wordpress.com July 15, 2013 A political prisoner in Cebu marked the 28th year commemoration of the abduction and disappearance of Redemptorist priest Rudy Romano on July 11, 2013 with a hunger strike until the Presidential State-of-the-Nation Address on July 22,…
Petition for the release of Political Prisoners and Detainees and for Proclaiming December 7 as Political Prisoners Day Dear President Benigno Simeon Aquino We are writing to Your Excellency, the President of the Republic of the Philippines to appeal in behalf of the 328 political prisoners and detainees nationwide. Our appeal is based on Section…
Political Prisoner Longs for Freedom, The Story of Juanito Itaas (Part 1) by Task Force Detainees of the Philippines HRonlinePH.com published this article by TFDP in July 2011. We decided to reshare this article one more time in support of TFDP’s #FREEourDEFENDERS Campaign. Amidst the sound of merrymaking, Juanito Itaas addressed the visitors and his…
Updates on the Bail Hearing of Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie case hrdefender.org February 4: Hearing on Continuance of Detention of Mr. Tulawie in Davao Human rights group (Philippine Alliance of Human Rights, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, Alliance of Progressive Labor, Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya, and Balay Rehabilitation Center) assembled outside the City Hall…
Cultural worker Ericson Acosta a free man once more By: InterAksyon.com February 5, 2013 MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE – 11:53 a.m.) Close to two years after he was arrested and detained by authorities who accused him of being a communist rebel leader, cultural worker and former UP Collegian editor Ericson Acosta is officially a free…
THE ERICSON ACOSTA STORY | Running home, almost free Text and photos by Elizabeth Lolarga, VERA Files January 17, 2013 CALBAYOG CITY, Samar—Political prisoner Ericson “Eric” Acosta, who had long stopped counting the days he had spent in jail at this city’s sub-provincial jail in Western Samar, was sprung an unanticipated pre-Valentine gift on Thursday:…
STATEMENT OF TEMOGEN “COCOY” TULAWIE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ARREST AND INCARCERATION AS A HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER Dear Friends, Comrades, Supporters and Fellow Human Rights Defenders, Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh! Exactly one year ago, January 14, 2012 just at the stroke of midnight, I was with my two sons, Eeman, (17…
GMA’s release indicates ’double standard’ justice – rights group Migrante-Middle East, www.thepoc.net July 26,2012 An activist overseas Filipino migrants’ right group reacted thus to the release from hospital arrest of former president and incumbent Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after the court granted her bail on the grounds that the electoral sabotage case filed against her by…
Hunger for justice by hrdefenders June 6, 2012 Would justice be judiciously served now that Renato Corona is out of the judiciary? Not so for Ramon Patriarca who must still face trumped up charges of rebellion whil locked up in the stockade of the AFP-Central Command. He, like the 167 political prisoners across the country,…
Statement from the Burma/Myanmar Delegation to the ACSC/APF 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Burma/Myanmar’s workshop, along with three other workshops, was not allowed to take place at the ACSC/APF 2012. Rather, the organizers were forced to move the workshops to another location. The workshop was to be on Burma/Myanmar’s current political and human rights situation…
https://www.facebook.com/Free.Ericson.Acosta.FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners?sk=wall ERICSON ACOSTA is a former editor of the U.P. Philippine Collegian. He is also known to his peers at the university as a poet, thespian, and songwriter. He was arrested without warrant by the military on February 13, 2011, in an upland barrio in Samar just because the laptop he carried roused the suspicion…
“Social networking is one of the most active web-based activities in the Philippines, with Filipinos being declared as the most active users on a number of web-based social network sites such as Facebook, Multiply , Twitter and blog,” http://en.wikipedia.org Advocates in the Philippines never fail to utilize the digital tools in the Year 2011. Surely…
HUSTISYA’Y PANGMAYAMAN? ni Gregorio V. Bituin Jr. 18 pantig bawat taludtod http://matangapoy.blogspot.com napakaraming katanungan ang umuukilkil sa isipan kapag may naaagrabyado sa sistema ng katarungan bakit si Erap na guilty sa plunder ay nakalaya agad ngunit yaong political prisoners sa piitan pa’y babad bakit si Gloria’y pwede agad magpagamot sa ibang bansa ngunit namamatay na…
HRDs and Advocates ! INVITATION Human Rights Day with PALEA workers October 6, 2:00 – 6:00 pm Venue: In Flight Catering Center , MIA Road, Terminal II near Nayong Pilipino ACTIVITIES : Ø Forum on Right to Work Ø Film Showing Ø HR materials booth Ø Solidarity statements Please bring your statement of support and…
We, Roman Catholic bishops and clergy of the Visayas Clergy Discernment Group are saddened that remnants of the Martial Law are still witnessed today, 39 years after its declaration, and 30 years after it was “lifted.” Thirty-nine years ago, the Marcos dictatorship jam-packed jails with political prisoners who fought against corruption and repression. Priests, religious,…
A day before the commemoration of Martial Law, leaders of civil society organizations urged President Benigno Aquino III to permanently eradicate the dark shadows of atrocities that Filipinos experienced under the authoritarian rule by starting with the release of all political prisoners, giving justice to victims of human rights violations and ending impunity. “‘Tuldukan na…
Palace draft of freedom of info bill: Focus on restrictions? Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility By Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo Published in PJR Reports, July-August 2011 A scan of the initial draft of the Aquino administration’s Freedom of Information (FOI) bill reveals a focus on restricting rather than enhancing the right to information.…
