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Under Duterte, red-tagging is used as a weapon to silence dissent and as justification for human rights abuses.

Philippines: Deadly crackdown on human rights defenders 09/03/2021 Extrajudicial killing / March 9, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in The Philippines. Description of the situation: The Observatory has been informed by Karapatan Alliance Philippines about the extrajudicial killing of nine human rights defenders and the arbitrary detention of four others in four provinces in Calabarzon region. On March 7, 2021, the Philippine...

UN expresses alarm over CALABARZON activists' deaths enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10)— The United Nations expressed alarm over the killing of nine activists and the arrest of six others in CALABARZON region over the weekend. "We are appalled by the apparently arbitrary killing of nine activists in simultaneous police-military operations in Batangas, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal provinces surrounding Metro Manila," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani in a press briefing on Tuesday. Shamdasani added the violent crac...

9 dead as police crackdown vs activists in Southern Tagalog Updated Mar 8, 2021 5:08:00 PM enablePagination: false endIndex: Fishers group PAMALAKAYA, Anakpawis, and peasant groups gather at the Commission on Human Rights to condemn the deadly crackdown in Southern Tagalog. The Sunday bloody carnage killed known activist leaders, and arrested many other progressives. Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 8) — The Philippine National Police reported that nine people were killed in separate operations in Calabarzon provinces on Sunday. At least seven of the dead were identified by human ri...

Two women's groups have denounced the killing of at least nine activists and arrest of seven others in a series of raids conducted by police in Laguna, Rizal, Batangas, and Cavite provinces.