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PHILIPPINES: AHRC condoles with the families who lost love ones in the Visayas earthquake

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Statement : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its condolences to the Filipino people, in particular those that have lost their loved ones and homes in the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck yesterday, February 6, in the islands of Negros and Cebu, in the Visayas. Read More...

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PHILIPPINES: Podcast - Phenomenon of murders in Cebu

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Press Release : (Hong Kong, February 6, 2012) In this episode of cast, the AHRC comments that the phenomenon of murders in Cebu, particularly the killing of a lawyer's wife and two others, is a result of breakdown of the law in a society. Read More...

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PHILIPPINES: AHRC condoles with the families who lost love ones in the Visayas earthquake
Feb 07, 2012 Statement
PHILIPPINES: Podcast - Phenomenon of murders in Cebu
Feb 06, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: Podcast - Unsolved killings of judges and lawyers
Feb 01, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: Torture victims whose complaints of injuries were ignored by doctors had their case dismissed
Jan 31, 2012 Urgent Appeal Update
PHILIPPINES: Podcast - Arrests of policemen for robbery, illegal drugs & rape
Jan 30, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: Protect journalist facing threats to his life
Jan 27, 2012 Urgent Appeal Case
PHILIPPINES: Podcast - USD933 bail for a man charged stealing coconut fruits
Jan 27, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: False murder charges on activist must be dropped
Jan 26, 2012 Urgent Appeal Update
PHILIPPINES: Podcast - lack of legal protection to persons arrested for 'common crimes'
Jan 26, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: Journalist threatened for condemning colleague's murder must be protected
Jan 19, 2012 Statement
PHILIPPINES: The concept of human rights stands accused in trial of Sulu activist
Jan 18, 2012 Statement
SAUDI ARABIA/PHILIPPINES: Melanie Cordon the OFW falsely charged of theft and tried in absentia is released after serving her sentence
Jan 17, 2012 Press Release
PHILIPPINES: Temogen Tulawie case - prosecutors uses forced confessions as evidence
Jan 16, 2012 Statement
PHILIPPINES: Police fail in their obligation to investigate journalist killings
Jan 06, 2012 Statement
PHILIPPINES: Immense violation of rights in Mindanao disaster
Dec 21, 2011 Statement

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Publications
  • article 2 - special report: Torture in the Philippines & the unfulfilled promise of the 1987 Constitution [read online]
  • The State of Human Rights in the Philippines in the years: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.
  • Fact Finding Mission Report - A fact-finding mission report aiming to ascertain the perpetrators of these extra-judicial killings through proper documentation and to create a strong public opinion and to pressure the State under the GMA regime in enabling a positive and decisive response in resolving the extra-judicial killing cases. [download PDF]
  • article 2 - article 2 is published by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) aims at the practical implementation of human rights. [read online]
  • Human Rights SOLIDARITY - A publication of AHRC, which brings in human rights issues by ways of stories, testimonies and interviews. [read online]
  • PRISONS...Manila Pen and beyond Prison Journal of Fr. Roberto P. Reyes [read more]

Torture Victims speak out

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Torture in the Philippines

Unthinkable delays in investigating and filing charges in court on complaints, for example the case of the Abadilla Five, detainees who had been illegally arrested, tortured to confess responsibility to the murder of an influential police colonel, Rolando Abadilla, who was murdered in 13 June 1996, remains to have not been filed in court. Their complaints have not been resolved and filed in court, despite a by the Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices (MOLEO) despite 13 years have passed.

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