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AFP Refuses To Tender Remains Of Indigenous Mangyan-Iraya In Mindoro; Harasses Humanitarian Mission Team Members
Tuesday, 31 December 2024, 12:49 pm | ICHRP
At around 7:45 AM on December 18, an indigenous Mangyan-Iraya died in a reported encounter between the 4th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (4IBPA) and the New People’s Army (NPA) in Sitio Tinis-an, Barangay San Vicente. More >>
ICHRP Condemns AFP Attacks Against Two Farmers In Quezon & Calls For Their Release
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 3:34 pm | ICHRP
Villanueva and another farmer named Genero were subsequently arrested by 85th IB soldiers, who accused them of being supporters of the NPA. The farmers’ whereabouts remain unknown. More >>
ICHRP Calls For Urgent Release Of Elderly Political Prisoner Tomas Dominado
Monday, 16 December 2024, 9:59 pm | ICHRP
Dominado was arrested on December 5 in Sooc, Arevalo, Iloilo City, on trumped-up charges of murder and rebellion. His fabricated charges stem from warrants that were issued over a decade ago, and for which several co-accused individuals have already ... More >>
ICHRP Condemns Marcos’ EO 77 As Mask For Escalating Rights, IHL Violations
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 11:23 pm | ICHRP
New PH inter-agency committee on IHL led by perpetrators, rights abusers More >>
Brace For A Sharper Fight For Human Rights In The Philippines Under Trump
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 10:19 pm | ICHRP
At this moment of change from Biden to Trump, ICHRP renews our call for an end to the US-led counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines, and a stop to its widespread indiscriminate bombing and artillery strikes in the countryside. More >>
Release Arrested Peace Consultants. Support Genuine Land Reform As Pathway To A Just Peace.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 10:15 pm | ICHRP
The three peace consultants are holders of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), an agreement between the GRP and the NDFP. They have a long track record of working alongside impoverished and militarized rural communities on the ... More >>
AFP’s “DAGIT-PA” Exercises Deadly For The Filipino People
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 1:11 pm | ICHRP
DAGIT-PA, short for “dagat, langit, at lupa” or sea, sky, and land, took place from November 4 to 15 and involved over 3,000 troops from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Special Operations. More >>
ICHRP Condemns Killing Of Jerick Jugal In Northern Samar
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:48 am | ICHRP
“ICHRP condemns the killing of Jerick in the strongest terms. The killing of Jerick leaves the family not only in deep grief but also in greater danger of hunger,” said ICHRP Chairperson, Peter Murphy. More >>
ICHRP Calls For Transparency In Philippine Congress Investigations Of Drug War And Related Crimes Against Humanity
Monday, 4 November 2024, 9:03 am | ICHRP
PH gov’t role as a serial human rights violator, perpetrator of state terrorism once again exposed in legislative hearings into drug war More >>
Peasant Organizer Abducted By AFP In Laguna
Monday, 21 October 2024, 10:17 am | ICHRP
Matias’ abduction is the 18th active case of enforced disappearance under the Marcos Jr. administration. Her disappearance happened in the midst of increasing militarization in the Southern Tagalog region. More >>
Press Conference For American HR Activist Barred From The Philippines, Another In A Pattern Of Political Repression
Monday, 21 October 2024, 4:43 am | ICHRP
Copeland Downs says his experience fits into the larger pattern of repressive actions by the US and Philippine governments who coordinate on surveillance strategy. More >>
Peace Activist Denied Entry To The Philippines
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 8:45 pm | ICHRP
The denial of entry is a violation of Copeland’s rights to freedom of movement and part of the larger pattern of attacks against human rights defenders and the growing international solidarity movement for human rights in the Philippines. More >>
NDFP Peace Consultant Killed While Meeting Peasants In Cagayan
Friday, 4 October 2024, 3:24 am | ICHRP
In addition to the violation of JASIG, the killing of Arbitrario constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law (IHL) as he was a prisoner of war, and thus hors de combat, at the time of his killing. More >>
Oppose Heightened Militarization And Use Of US Made Tanks Against Peasant Communities In Southern Tagalog
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 3:15 am | ICHRP
As the Armed Forces of the Philippines continue to use US military aid and US manufactured weapons against poor and marginalized communities in the Philippines, it is critical the international community raise our level of opposition to US-led militarization ... More >>
Surface Two Youth Activists Abducted In Cagayan Valley
Monday, 16 September 2024, 3:02 pm | ICHRP
The latest annual joint military exercise dubbed Balikatan (shoulder to shoulder) that ended in May 10, 2024, also took place in Cagayan Valley Region where the recent abduction incident happened. More >>
Evading Accountability, Philippine Court Denies Protection Orders For IPT Witness Jonila Castro And Activist Jhed Tamano
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 2:06 pm | ICHRP
On August 6, 2024, the 8th Division of the Philippine Court of Appeals denied the application for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data of environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, which would have provided the two activists with legal ... More >>
AFP Claim To “Reaffirm” Human Rights And International Humanitarian Law A Total Mockery
Saturday, 17 August 2024, 7:13 pm | ICHRP
As democratic space in the Philippines continues to shrink, ICHRP calls on the international community to continue to expose and oppose the war crimes committed against the Filipino people and to stop all forms of military support to the Marcos Jr. regime. More >>
Philippines: Overturn Absurd Guilty Verdict Against Satur Ocampo, Rep France Castro And Others
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 6:24 pm | ICHRP
The charges were laid in 2018 when Castro, Ocampo and others mounted a National Humanitarian Mission to Talaingod, Davao del Norte, to bring food to the students at the Lumad School there which was under a food blockade and threats of violence from the notorious ... More >>
Wage Hike For Private Sector Workers In Metro Manila, Not Enough To Buy A Kilo Of Rice – ICHRP
Friday, 5 July 2024, 10:08 am | ICHRP
July 4, 2024 The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) condemns the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in its recent Wage Order No. NCR-25 providing a P35 (USD 0.60) wage hike for private sector workers ... More >>
ICHRP Condemns Proposed Visiting Forces Agreement Between New Zealand And The Philippines
Saturday, 29 June 2024, 3:38 pm | ICHRP
A VFA between the two countries is an agreement to have closer military ties making it easier for the armed forces of the two countries to work together. More >>
