Climate Change Deniers Violate Human Rights

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:15:53 +0000

Whoever still thinks climate change is purely an environmental issue, threatening only nature, needs to think again. Climate change is also essentially a human issue because of its devastating effect on human life — and rights. It exacerbates existing inequalities, undermines democracy and threatens development at large. Likewise, by far the greatest burden will fall on those already in poverty, while the rich will be able to buy their way out of rising heat and hunger

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Kin fear for safety of ambushed rights worker Brandon Lee

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:43:08 +0000

Baguio activists condemn attack on human rights worker in Ifugao

BAGUIO CITY – The family of Brandon Lee has expressed worries over his safety more than a week after unidentified assailants shot him in front of his house in Lagawe, Ifugao. Lee, an American citizen who volunteered as a paralegal for the Ifugao Peasant Movement, remains in a critical condition at a hospital here. He […]

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Task force to probe attack on human rights worker Brandon Lee

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:00:02 +0000

The Cordillera police have formed a task force to investigate the attack on Brandon Lee, a human rights advocate who was been tagged by the military as a supporter of the communist rebels.

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De Lima warns Isko Moreno vs presenting crime suspects in public

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:14:11 +0000

De Lima warns Isko Moreno vs presenting crime suspects in public

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno should stop parading suspects in public as it violates a person’s constitutional rights, Senator Leila de Lima said.

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Baguio activists condemn attack on human rights worker in Ifugao

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:56:12 +0000

Baguio activists condemn attack on human rights worker in Ifugao

Around 50 activists have staged a protest in Baguio City to condemn the attack against an Ifugao human rights worker.

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Duterte says Cory is popular only for losing her husband

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:44:32 +0000

Duterte says Cory is popular only for losing her husband

MANILA, Philippines—A day after the 10th death anniversary of former President Corazon Aquino, President Rodrigo Duterte said she was only famous for losing her husband, former senator Benigno Simeon “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. “Cory Aquino maybe popular, she is popular today. Why? For losing the husband in the hands of Mr. Marcos,” Duterte said before agrarian […]

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Duterte calls Karapatan an ‘organization of demons in the Philippines’

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:28:51 +0000

Duterte calls Karapatan an 'organization of demons in the Philippines'

MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday slammed human rights group Karapatan, calling it a “front” of communists rebels and an “organization of demons in the Philippines.” Speaking before agrarian reform beneficiaries in his hometown Davao City, Duterte also claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), through its armed wing the New People’s Army […]

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DOJ: State of Lawlessness can be used to quell violence in Negros Oriental

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:39:51 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of Lawlessness proclamation in 2016 remains in place and can be used to quell violence in Negros Oriental, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Friday.

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Esperon slammed anew for ‘Red-tagging’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:22:29 +0000

Esperon slammed anew for ‘Red-tagging’

Human rights and religious groups slammed National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. for “ceaselessly Red-tagging organizations

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