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Anti-terrorism law is retribution for defending human rights
Monday, 1 February 2021 | Statement
Statement on the occasion of the first oral arguments by the petitioners vs Republic Act No. 11479 before the Supreme Court
We gather today with dozens of petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Law to push back yet another despotic attempt of the Duterte government to obliterate our democracy, silence our voices and return us to authoritarian rule. We are here to challenge the…
Terrorist tagging of major universities a military project to “flatten the curve” of protests
Monday, 25 January 2021 | Statement
Statement on the tagging of 18 universities as recruiters of terrorists
IMPEACHMENT CASE VS LEONEN – A DESPERATE ACT BY A DESPERATE BONGBONG MARCOS
Sunday, 20 December 2020 | Statement
IDEFEND calls on Congress to junk immediately the unfounded, farcical impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Justice Marvic Leonen.
Exact Accountability, Defend Human Rights, Recover Better
Wednesday, 9 December 2020 | Statement
Statement on International Human Rights Day 2020
An appeal to the Human Rights Council for a strong resolution that addresses the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines
Thursday, 24 September 2020 | Statement
More than seventy civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and grassroots groups led by the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) and the In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) are alarmed at the renewed perpetration of extrajudicial killings in the country, even as the Philippine government claimed…