August 17, 2021 Today marks one year since human rights worker Zara Alvarez, a brave and staunch defender of farmers and Filipino rights, was murdered on August 17th 2020. Zara was assassinated by a state death squad in Bacolod City, Philippines, a victim of the… Read More »ICHRP marks 1st anniversary of the state murder of Filipina human rights worker Zara Alvarez
Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous peoples, land and human rights defenders, and low-income people are being displaced, terrorized, jailed and killed in the Philippines by their own government. INVESTIGATE PH is documenting these abuses in a series of three reports. The second report, released on July 6 and submitted to the UN Human Rights Council,… Read More »TAKE ACTION to stop state-sponsored killings and human rights violations in the Philippines
The second report of InvestigatePH, the independent international investigation into the human rights crisis in the Philippines, was released on July 6th. It details police and military impunity, a war against dissenters, and the destruction and displacement brought upon the Moro people. Members, affiliates, and… Read More »ICHRP-Canada Expresses Outrage at Results of Second InvestigatePH Report
Statement of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development Original: OurCommons.ca Ottawa, May 19, 2021 – On 4 May 2021, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights (the Subcommittee) heard harrowing testimony from witnesses who described the… Read More »Gov’t of Canada Statement re: the situation of human rights defenders in the Philippines
The International Coalition of Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP Canada) condoles with the family, friends and the peasant movement in the Philippines for the loss of another courageous leader Joseph Canlas, 59. He was the Vice Chair of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP… Read More »Justice for Joseph Canlas! Free All Political Prisoners In The Philippines!
ICHRP-Canada • May 4, 2021 • Recording: http://ichrpcanada.org/parl-hearing The Canadian House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights conducted a hearing on the human rights crisis in the Philippines on Tuesday, May 4, 7:30 – 8:30 P.M. EST. The hearing was conducted amidst growing calls… Read More »Press Release: Canadian Parliamentary hearing on the human rights situation in the Philippines
The Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development is conducting a briefing on the human rights situation in the Philippines on May 4, 2021, 7:30 – 8:30 P.M. EST (May 5, 7:30 – 8:30… Read More »Media Advisory: Parliamentary Hearing on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
April 24 remains a historic and significant date for the Cordillera peoples. It was in the evening of this day in 1980 when soldiers belonging to the Philip pine Army’s 4th Infantry Division, under Lt. Leodegario Adalem, fired at two houses in the village of Bugnay, Tinglayan, Kalinga.
The Philippine Cordillera is the largest mountain range in the Philippines. It is also an administrative region and home to indigenous peoples who have been present for centuries. Today, aggressions and human rights violations persist in the Cordillera. The ancestral lands of indigenous peoples continue… Read More »Webinar on the Cordillere of the Philippines on march 11TH 2021
Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada February 25, 2021 The international human rights organization, Global Witness, reported that in 2019 over half of all reported killings of rights defenders occurred in just two countries, the Philippines and Colombia, and that mining was the deadliest sector with 50… Read More »Presentation on media panel for the tabling of the parliamentary e-petition on the situation of human rights in the Philippines