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.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The Regional Council of the National Democratic Front – Southern Mindanao Region announced on Tuesday its…
City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio hit out the New People’s Army for torching a plant owned by the Lapanday Foods Corporation.
A labor rights organization on Friday said that 14 workers were killed in what it described as a “politically motivated” killings and labor harassments continued under the Duterte administration.
A militant lawmaker on Friday pressed for the implementation of the 1998 Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and the International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) as counter-insurgency operations are targeting the Lumad communities in Mindanao.
Rutchiel Saypan, 26, joined other families of farmer-activists in a protest on Thursday to call for justice for her cousin, Jimmy Saypan .
