On the 2025 State of the Nation Address (SONA)of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. July 2025 The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP Canada) stands in solidarity with the Filipino people as they confront the stark realities behind the polished rhetoric of… Read More »People’s Sona solidarity Statement
19 May 2025 An OPEN LETTER to PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY Dear Prime Minister Carney, Congratulations on your election as Prime Minister! We are writing on behalf of ICHRP-Canada, a global chapter of a coalition of church groups, unions, community advocates, and individuals committed to… Read More »Re: Canada’s Bilateral Relations with the Philippines:A Call for a Human Rights–Based Foreign Policy
19 May 2025 The Honourable Anita AnandMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of CommonsOttawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Anand, The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-Canada) congratulates you on your recent appointment as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. We wish you well in… Read More »Urgent Concerns Regarding Canada’s Defence Cooperation and Foreign Policy Toward the Philippines
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP Canada) welcomes the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as a long-overdue step toward justice and accountability for the thousands of victims of human rights violations and crimes against humanity under his regime. This… Read More »Statement on the Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) Canada, strongly denounces the verdict issued by Judge Jimmy Boco of the Tagum City Regional Trial Court, Branch 2. The court, convicted Rep. France Castro, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Partylist representative in the Philippine… Read More »ICHRP STATEMENT on the Unjust verdict vs Rep. France Castro and Satur ocampo and 18 members of humanitarian mission
The following speech was delivered at SONA ng Bayan (People’s SONA) in Toronto on July 26th, 2020. The event was part of a series of coordinated actions around the world which drew attention to the worsening conditions in the Philippines, and the Duterte administration’s failure… Read More »ICHRP Canada speech for people’s state of the nation address 2020
The first week of June saw two seismic events related to the human rights situation in the Philippines. On one hand, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights released a long-awaited and damning report on the state of human rights in the Philippines and the… Read More »Philippines pushes ahead with draconian Anti-Terror Law in the wake of damning UN human rights report
