VERA Files
Advocates launched an online rally against child marriage in time for the celebration of International Day of the Girl on October 11.
Last Dec. 12, two days after the universal observance of International Human Rights Day, human rights advocates gathered at the Novotel in Quezon City to applaud the awarding to Aileen Bacalso, the Franco-German Ministerial Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
At the School Gate, authored by Sandra Nicole Roldan and illustrated by Nina Martinez, covers all the rights people need to uphold. It opens with a 15-year-old protagonist Ella Cortez trying to meet a deadline for a school paper and goes on to follow her as her aunt fetches her at the gate and breaks some somber news—the arrest of Ella’s father, an NGO worker.
PhilRights said there is enough evidence to conclude that the drug war “has resulted in gross and interrelated human rights violations that extended to the families and communities of those who have been killed.”
“What we are trying to avoid is the normalization of measures reserved for extraordinary cases concerning national safety,” CHR Spokesperson Jacqueline Ann de Guia said.
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin warned on July 11 of “consequences; far reaching ones” as he rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution to report on human rights in the Philippines next June.
He falsely claimed mobile phones are ‘a basic human right.’
Sinabi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na walang hayagang nagtanong sa kanya tungkol sa paglabag ng karapatang pantao sa ASEAN Summit, ilang minuto lang pagkatapos iwasan ang tanong kaugnay ng pampublikong pahayag ng isa pang lider ng bansa tungkol sa paglabag sa karapatang pantao.
Removal of the GSP+ will impact the Philippine economy negatively.
There was no “big victory” in Geneva, and no UN “recognition” of the Philippine human rights record under Duterte.