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[RE: UA-72-2005: PHILIPPINES: Prosecutor’s inaction to file murder charges against military officers who killed two people; UP-130-2006: PHILIPPINES: Court judge delays issuance of arrest warran...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; violence against activists; a need for effective police investigation, protection to families of the dead; collapse of rule of law ————...

[RE: UA-216-2005: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: PHILIPPINES: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPP...

The Philippines in recent times has been plagued by widespread and systematic violations of human rights, which include unabated extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances, among othe...

In addition to the general statement issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for International Human Rights Day on December 10, we are also making the brief comments below on the human righ...

Discontent over malfunctioning democracies and legal systems and the consequent setbacks these shortcomings cause for human rights and the rule of law, as well as aggressively expressed aspirations to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the prolonged detention of two farmers in Davao Oriental province, the Philippines. Both of them have been detained fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that four farmers were wounded after they were reportedly ambushed by armed security guards of an influential landowner in H...

A statement issued on the occasion of the International Symposium on the Structures and Funcations of NHRIs: a search for best practices to be held in Seoul, South Korea on December 4, 2006 The goals ...

[RE: UA-219-2005: PHILIPPINES: Threat against an activist priest; bullets offered after a mass in Bulacan, Luzon] ————————————- ...

Dutch and Belgian Lawyers organizations were alarmed by the reports and statements of international and Filipino human rights organizations and various news items about the violence against members of...

PHILIPPINES: violence against activist; impartial and independent investigation; collapse of rule of law ———————————– Dear frien...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings, violence against activist; a need for impartial and independent investigation; enforced and involuntary disappearance; torture; collapse of rule of lawTo support ...

PHILIPPINES: violence against villagers seeking land reform; forced displacement; harassment and intimidation; violation of right to land; un-rule of law ——————R...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

After the election of the Philippines, last November 3, 2006, as member of the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a major United Nations body, the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights...

(An advanced study on human rights was held at the Asian Human Rights Commission premises from 6-11 November, 2006) A group of human rights activists met in Hong Kong for an advanced human rights stud...

In what appears to be a concerted attack on the entire human rights movement in the Philippines, army, civilian and police officials have all made scathing statements describing the work of rights gro...

Dear Friends, Please find below a self-explanatory call for action from Geneva-based NGO the International Service for Human Rights concerning the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rig...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings, violence against activist; impartial and independent investigation; alleged involvement by military in killings; collapse of rule of law ———R...