Rights group cites CHR report in push vs NTF-ELCAC, terror law
2 MIN READKarapatan said the Commission on Human Rights’ findings from the inquiry on red-tagging support calls to abolish the NTF-ELCAC and review anti-terrorism laws.
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On the Red-tagging of Nordis Contributors Iggy Lami-ing and JJ Buenaventura
2 MIN READBeyond the psychological turmoil many of us have experienced and continue to endure, and the disruption of our work, red-tagging has cost our ranks their freedom and their lives.
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Impunity, repression mark rights situation in Luzon
3 MIN READA convergence of human rights, economic, and climate-related crises is displacing communities across Luzon, where militarization, land disputes, and climate disasters intersect, further marginalizing vulnerable sectors, according to Amnesty International Philippines.
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Rights group flags US Embassy alert as ‘red-tagging playbook’
2 MIN READKarapatan criticized a security alert issued by the United States Embassy in Manila following the April 19 military operation in Toboso, Negros Occidental, that left 19 people dead, including two American citizens.
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Don’t Look at All: Manufacturing Rationality in a Burning World
5 MIN READ“Grooming,” in this sense, becomes less an explanation than a defense: a way to discredit and pre-empt what becomes possible when people begin to think and act together outside sanctioned frames of sense-making.
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Environmental group decries police monitoring at Pangasinan festival
2 MIN READEnvironmental advocates in Pangasinan condemned alleged surveillance by the PNP on April 30, during Kalutan ed Dalan, a street event held as part of the annual Bangus Festival in Dagupan City
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Twisting IHL Principles to Justify Killings in Toboso
4 MIN READThe attempt to justify these killings through twisted legal definitions directly violates this agreement and the state’s solemn commitment to respect human rights.
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“Corned beef” as Dehumanizing Words to Mock Activists’ Deaths
3 MIN READ“Corned beef” is perhaps a permutation of the “extrajudicial judicial killings” narratives that treat certain lives as expendable in the anti-drug campaign: nightly body counts, jokes about “nanlaban,” and speeches that openly promise death.
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La Union youth group urges CHR probe into red-tagging
2 MIN READA youth group in La Union urged the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the reported red-tagging of its president and members.
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ASEAN lawmakers condemn Toboso killings, seek probe
2 MIN READ Parliamentarians from Southeast Asian nations condemned the killing of 19 individuals in a military operation in Toboso, Negros Occidental, on April 19, including nine identified as civilians.
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