Educating the People, Consolidating Our Ranks
NUPL NCR President’s Report The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) – National Capital Region (NCR), as one of NUPL’s chapters, is committed to the defense, protection, and promotion of human rights especially of the poor and the oppressed as well as the assertion of national sovereignty. The NUPL-NCR has been founded on August [...]
Read MoreMartial Law-Era Case Sets Bad Precedent, Further Institutionalizes Roadblocks and Blind Corners in the Way of Justice for Rights Victims
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers is utterly appalled with the recent Supreme Court (SC) decision in the case Ver et al. vs Aberca et al., where it was ruled that the procedural due process rights of dictator Marcos’ loyal right-hand man, AFP Chief of Staff Fabian Ver and several military officers, including then Lt. Col. and now Sen. Panfilo Lacson, as well as notorious and remorseless Martial Law torturers Col. Rolando Abadilla and Rodolfo Aguinaldo, were violated.
Read MoreINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS OPPOSES MILITARY FORCE AGAINST SYRIA AND IRAN
IADL Statement The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), a non-governmental organization having consultative status with the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is dedicated to uphold international law, particularly the peaceful resolution of disputes as set forth in the UN Charter and basic human rights instruments. IADL notes with concern that [...]
Read MoreINTERNATIONAL LAWYERS GROUP CHALLENGES PHILIPPINE GOV’T TO ARREST FORTHWITH NOTORIOUS FUGITIVE GENERAL
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), a non-governmental organization founded in 1947 that has consultative status with the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and accredited with the UN Human Rights Council, has called on the Philippine government to use all its powers, resources and machinery in immediately arresting retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. who has gone into hiding for three months now.
Read MoreMilitary and Police Coddling Morong 43 Rights Violators
AFP and PNP Give Victims the Run-Around News Release March 20, 2012 Months after summons have been issued by a Quezon City Regional Trial Court, several respondent military personnel and police officers in the P15-million damage suit filed by the Morong 43 health workers remained officially unnotified of the charges. The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL), counsel for [...]
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day: Philippine Rights Delegation at the UN Call for Justice for Filipina Human Rights Defenders, Raise Child Rights Violations under Aquino
UPR Press Statement [Geneva, 8 March 2012] Speaking at a side event organized by the International Service for Human Rights and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition during the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Tanggol Bayi-Karapatan spokesperson and Philippine UPR Watch convener Cristina Palabay today enjoined international [...]
Read MoreFilipino Rights Workers Raise Issue of Continuing Arbitrary Detentions and Plight of Political Prisoners before International Rights Body
Palabay was joined in the Philippine UPR Watch delegation by Atty. Edre Olalia of the NUPL and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL); Nardy Sabino of the Promotion of the Church People’s Response (PCPR); Sr. Stella Matutina of the environmental advocacy group, Panalipdan! Mindanao and Barug Katungod Mindanao consortium of human rights defenders; and, Maribel Mapanao of the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP)– Switzerland.
The group has been meeting and briefing various foreign diplomatic missions and international NGOs based in Geneva as well as representatives of UN human rights special procedures and the Filipino migrant community on the state of human rights in the Philippines as seen from the ground. The Philippines will be subjected to the second cycle of the UPR this May 28 to June 3, 2012.
Read MorePHILIPPINE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS TAG COUNTERINSURGENCY POLICY AS PNOY’S WAY OF HONORING GMA AND PALPARAN’S LEGACY OF TERROR
Palabay was joined in the Philippine UPR Watch delegation by Atty. Edre Olalia of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL); Nardy Sabino of the Promotion of the Church People’s Response (PCPR); Sr. Stella Matutina of the environmental advocacy group, Panalipdan! Mindanao and Barug Katungod Mindanao consortium of human rights defenders; and, Maribel Mapanao of the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP)– Switzerland.
Read MoreTELLING IT AS IT IS
Olalia, also a counsel of the mothers of the two disappeared UP students Cadapan and Empeno, said this effort to seek the continued support and vigilance of the international community on the case is part of the advocacy to end impunity in the country, in contrast to the Aquino government’s lackluster efforts in prosecuting and holding accountable the perpetrators of human rights violations.
Read MoreFROM DEFENDERS TO VICTIMS: The Plight of Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines Amidst Continuing Impunity
“We leave unmolested those who set fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm”, It is an apt description to the attacks against human rights defenders in the Philippines.
The government of former President Arroyo has gone from denial to outright gun threat against the messengers exposing systematic extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture and other horrible violations of human rights committed against activists, farmers, workers and members of people’s and mass organizations. This has been the case since we brought these issues out to the attention of the national and international community.
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