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Ilaban ang karapatan para sa tagumpay ng mamamayan
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Pahayag ng iDefend sa #UDHR75
Sa ika-75 anibersaryo ng Deklarasyon ng Karapatang Pantao, ginugunita sa buong mundo ang adhikain ng Dignidad, Kalayaan at Hustisya para sa lahat. Sinasariwa natin ang pagkakaroon ng isang deklarasyong ibinunga ng pinakamadilim na yugto ng kasaysayan, ang pangalawang pandaigdigang giyera. Isang deklarasyong nakatuon sa kinabukasan na wala nang nagugutom, inaapi, dinadahas, at ninanakawan ng pag asa.
PHILIPPINE GROUPS FORM ANTI-WAR NETWORK: Call for Permanent Ceasefire, End to Genocide in Gaza
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We, the Philippine groups representing various interests and advocacies, including those on human rights, labor, women, youth, urban poor, Moro and IPs, environment, and political parties, form ourselves today into NO TO WAR network in solidarity with the world’s people who are suffering from the devastating impacts of ongoing conflicts and in preventing the slide of other conflicts into new wars, including those in Asia and possibly in the Philippines.
The vindication of Leila De Lima
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Former Senator Leila de Lima has been granted bail and released by the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court where she is facing her last drug related case. This vindicates her and the good fight she waged against the violent and criminal rule of former President Rodrigo Duterte. De Lima was ousted from the Senate leadership of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights in 2016 and slapped with trumped up charges by the Duterte government after initiating the only credible investigation into the war on drugs.
Hustisya para kay Juan Jumalon at sa iba pang mamamahayag na biktima ng karahasan at paglabag sa karapatang pantao!
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Pahayag ng iDEFEND sa pagkakapaslang kay DJ Johnny Walker
Mariing kinokondena ng In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDefend) ang pagpaslang sa brodkaster na si Ginoong Juan Jumalon, kilala bilang DJ Johnny Walker, sa loob mismo ng kanyang tahanan at studio, noong ika-5 ng Nobyembre. Binaril si Jumalon ng ilang salarin habang naka livestream sa Calamba, Misamis Occidental. Si Jumalon ang ika apat na mamamahayag na pinaslang sa ilalim ng gobyernong Marcos Jr.