?Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and policies that cause food deprivation among the poor Filipinos like the 70% farmers and farm workers in the country,? Celso Pojas, KMP-SMR spokesperson said.
Cites unresolved issues of rights violation in previous Balikatan The Moro partylist organization Suara Bangsamoro calls for the government to stop the holding of Balikatan in Sulu and Basilan slated…
The Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao region today expressed apprehension over the proposed revival of the National ID System, saying that ?the measure will backtrack the hard-won victories of human rights…
Davao City-- Gabriela today lambasted the dismissal of the rape case filed by 16-year old "Emily" against six men in July last year. In a resolution filed last January 4,…
At the height of the escalating incidents of the murder of activists, there was strong condemnation, both within and outside the country that forced the government to do something to stop the killing. Now that the number of killings has declined, condemnation has also decreased and discussion into finding reasonable remedies and redress for the victims had waned. It has even prompted the government to take the credit for the decline in the number of killings as proof of the improved human rights conditions in the country.