NUPL-NCR Secretary General Atty. Krissy Conti: A People’s Lawyer Among Women of Power
She has not wavered amid relentless red-tagging, misogynist vitriol, and coordinated efforts to discredit her and the cause she serves.
March 25, 2025
NUPL
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers is a nationwide voluntary association of human rights lawyers in the Philippines, committed to the defense, protection, and promotion of human rights, especially of the poor and the oppressed.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) congratulates our Secretary General for the National Capital Region, Atty. Maria Kristina “Krissy” Conti, for being named one of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Women of Power 2025.

The recognition is well-deserved. Atty. Conti has spent the first decade of her legal career in the difficult work of people’s lawyering—representing victims of the Duterte administration’s drug war and those targeted by political repression. She has consistently defended the people’s rights in both legal and legislative arenas, walking into courtrooms, congressional hearings, and hostile online spaces with the same resolve: to speak truth to power.

She has not wavered amid relentless red-tagging, misogynist vitriol, and coordinated efforts to discredit her and the cause she serves.

May Atty. Conti’s work and example inspire a new generation of young women lawyers: to stay rooted in the people’s struggles for justice and democracy, and to walk past the lines drawn for them—not only to break the glass ceiling, but to build a better world beyond it.#

Reference:

Atty. Josalee S. Deinla
NUPL Secretary General
+639174316396

Read more

Hands off NUPL Negros Chairperson Atty. Rey Gorgonio and PDG development workers! – NUPL

Hands off NUPL Negros Chairperson Atty. Rey Gorgonio and PDG development workers! – NUPL

These attacks against Atty. Gorgonio and his clients, whom the military has labeled as “high value individuals,” are part of the continuing weaponization of counterterrorism measures against development workers and human rights defenders. They create a chilling climate meant to intimidate and hinder human rights lawyers from independently performing their duties and providing legal services without fear.

On the Conviction of Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Marielle Domequil for Terrorism Financing

On the Conviction of Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Marielle Domequil for Terrorism Financing

For human rights defenders, humanitarian and religious workers, development NGO personnel, journalists, and community organizers, the unmistakable message is that legitimate social engagement and protected civic activity may be recast by the State as terrorism financing through broad and elastic standards untethered from real acts of terrorism. This shows how terror laws in the Philippines, by their nature and design, chill speech, deter association, and shrink civic space.

Share This