The government’s ambition to exit the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gray list or meet arbitrary prosecution quotas cannot, and must not, serve as a justification for the harassment and criminalization of activists and rights defenders. These are people who take the blows so that others may live with dignity. To brand them as terrorists is a grotesque distortion of truth.
NUPL | Sep 5, 2024
This is more than a matter of a solitary act of censorship; it is a chilling reminder that the past, with all its repressive mechanisms, has not fully released its grip on the present. The X-rating of Alipato at Muog is not an isolated incident but a symptom of a larger, more grievous attempt to control the narrative and to sanitize the history that those in power find inconvenient.
NUPL is proud to have joined and supported the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP) Conference 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. The three-day Conference tackled common issues on peace, human rights, climate change, migrants and refugee issues, and sectoral rights.
We demand justice for Jonas, Karen, Sherlyn, Dexter, Bazoo, and for all those whose names we may never know. We stand firm in our resolve to seek justice, to bring the truth to light, and to ensure that these injustices are never forgotten.
NUPL-NCR took a closer look at the Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability, which was updated in 2022
The all-women batch of law student interns finish their internship program with firsthand experience in people's lawyering.
NUPL-NCR provided a seminar on human rights and free legal advice to residents of Brgy. Libis in Quezon City.
The Decision is a stark departure from jurisprudence concerning the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and security. As held in Deduro, the right to security exists independently of the right to liberty and it not only prohibits the State from arbitrarily depriving liberty, but also imposes a positive duty on the State to afford protection for the right.
“We expect a concrete policy that will tend to curb human rights violations in the Philippines and ease the climate of impunity, not some motherhood statements praising its own human rights initiative like the human rights super body.”
His statements only reinforce the reasonable belief that he is most responsible for crimes against humanity committed in the Philippines in the context of the “war on drugs”. And that in effect, he intends to deprive victims of their chance at accountability for thousands of killings.
