Progressive lawmakers are planning to file a resolution to probe on the alleged human rights violations committed by the military against the residents of Barangay Dominga in Calinan district, this city.
The triumphant members of Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries did not only materially own back their lands from years of control through the burdensome agreement with Lapanday Foods Corp. but an assertion of social justice.
An organization of Moro and indigenous peoples expressed fear that the appointment of former Army generals in cabinet positions will “intensify” attacks in their communities.
Karapatan in Davao region reported harassment, bombing in Davao City.
An ethnic group filed a formal complaint against the Armed Forces of the Philippines at the NDFP-GRP rights monitoring committee.
The Philippines UPR Watch assailed on Tuesday the report submitted by the government for the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights of the country on May 8 in Geneva.
The 10th Infantry (Agila) Division of the Philippine Army submitted to the Joint Monitoring Committee, 19 formal complaints against the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA)
The extrajudicial killings in the Philippines was done in the course of US-driven counterinsurgency programs.
A staunch Lumad school supporter was how a farmers’ group described Federico Plaza, a Lumad farmer-activist, who was killed by unidentified gunmen in Compostela Valley province earlier this week.
A Lumad farmer-activist in Compostela Valley province was gunned down on Wednesday afternoon, according to a local human rights group.
