All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘human rights defenders’
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Statement of support to the call of the UN experts and international human rights community on the situation of rights defenders in Mindanao
23 July 2012 - A propos the assaults against human rights defenders working on land rights in Mindanao, we support the recent call of the United Nations Special Rapporteurs (UNSR) on human rights defenders and extra-judicial killings for the Government of the Philippines to adopt …
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Statement on the Current Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
Kowloon Union Church, 22 July 2012 - ”Like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people” (Matthew 20:28) This quotation from the Bible reminds us that there people who speak …
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UN-SRs noted growing number of killings of rights defenders—Karapatan
Press Statement, July 13, 2012 – Human rights group Karapatan today affirmed the observations of the United Nations Special Rapporteurs (UN-SR) on human rights defenders and extrajudicial killings on the “growing number of threats and killings of rights defenders” in the Philippines. The statement by …
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Concrete actions, plain answers from the government needed to address impunity, legal factors contributing to continuing violations pointed out in UN forum
Press Release, May 27, 2012 – “With a legal and judicial system engendering human rights violations, the structure that bred impunity is still very much in place,” Atty. Edre Olalia of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers …
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Liguyon’s wife to go to national capital to protest killing of husband, threats against community
Stop the Killings in the Philippines! Defend and protect Human Rights Defenders! End Impunity Now! MALAYBALAY CITY – The 19 families of Human Rights Defenders remain adamant in continuing their camp-out protest at the Bukidnon Provincial Capitol grounds. Instead of backing down from the pressure, …
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