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“Today, we witnessed how even our local security forces are keen on employing violent tactics to quell the dissent of the marginalized and the oppressed."
This week, two Lumad from Compostela Valley have been gunned down.
Jimmy Saypan, 48, secretary-general of CFA, had been vocal against the operations of Agusan Petroleum and Minerals Corporation (Agpet).
“The struggle for meaningful and thoroughgoing change continues, as we continue to uphold and assert people’s rights.”
“The amnesty and release of all political prisoners is an act of righting the violations of the CARHRIHL and the Hernandez political offense doctrine.” – NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison
Outright censorship was replaced by the dominant media’s standards of “newsworthiness.”
In a forum organized by Bulatlat, challenges to human rights reporting in the Philippines are presented by journalists Benjie Oliveros and Ilang-Ilang Quijano and Anne Ednalyn Dela Cruz, a faculty member of St. Scholastica's College.
From July 2010 to June 30, 2016, Karapatan documented 94 individuals killed by government-backed paramilitary troops.
Small fishermen in Patungan, Maragondon, Cavite are being driven away by real estate developers to give way to a high-end resort and other commercial establishments.
“Until now, we have not attained justice. We will continue to fight for it.”
“Martial Law may not exist today but the social conditions that gave rise to it remain.”
From 2004 to 2014 shows that majority of the reported violations were perpetrated by state security forces against civilians.
“The fact that it will reopen old wounds, isn’t it a continuity of impunity that the 1987 Constitution ended?” -- Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno
The KMP challenged the Duterte administration to give justice to the victims of the Fort Magsaysay carnage and hold the perpetrators accountable.
“We want Gen. Dela Rosa’s commitment in making sure that the Lumad can go home safely by arresting Calpet Egua, Loloy Tejero, Bobby Tejero, Margarito Layno and 32 other AFP goons who killed our leaders.”
“Burying the dictator in the Libingan ng mga Bayani will not heal our wounded country.”
“Until now, we bear the trauma then we are told to forget about the past. What about us, the victims?”
With the new administration, Aya is hoping she and other relatives of the disappeared would get a chance to know the truth.
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