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PAGBABAGO NI DUTERTE: KARAHASAN, KAHIRAPAN, KATRAYDORAN SA BAYAN, PANAGUTIN!
Sunday, 21 July 2019 | Statement
Tatlong taong nagdaan, sanlaksang kasalanan ng gobyernong Duterte sa taumbayan.
Human Rights scores one for a change – iDEFEND
Thursday, 11 July 2019 | Statement
Years of painstaking efforts to pursue justice for the victims of the war on drugs won a crucial headway today as the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council adopted resolution L20, seeking to report on the Philippines’ extrajudicial killings. The resolution, submitted by 39 countries headed by Iceland, urged the Philippine government to prevent extrajudicial killings and…
Human Rights group welcomes Iceland resolution on the Philippines
Friday, 5 July 2019 | Statement
In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) welcomes the resolution filed by Iceland at the 41st UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva, seeking a comprehensive report by the High Commissioner, on the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines pursuant to the government’s war on drugs. The draft resolution provides a critical first step to help the Philippines, which has…
iDEFEND supports the call for international independent inquiry into EJKs in the Philippines
Tuesday, 25 June 2019 | Statement
In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) concurs with the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council, regarding the persistence of extrajudicial killings and related violence in the Philippines in the context of the war on drugs.
Reported revocation of PAHRA SEC registration a gag order - iDEFEND
Friday, 10 May 2019 | Statement
Government propaganda machine Philippine News Agency is misleading the public and falsely reported that PAHRA’s operation as NGO is illegal because its Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration has been revoked. In its continuing attack on civil society, the Duterte administration, now through the SEC named PAHRA along with other human rights and sectoral organizations as communist…