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Faith leaders to Biden: Cut aid to PH amid rights issues

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 02 07:07 PM

A group of religious organization urged US President Joe Biden to stop sending military assistance to the Philippines. Read more »

Rights violations continuing in PH, groups tell UN

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 27 12:47 PM

Filipino human rights defenders have maintained that human rights violations are continuing in the Philippines under the Marcos administration. Read more »

UN: PH gov't bigo tulungan ang WWII comfort women

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 09 08:52 PM

Wagi ang grupo ng mga comfort women matapos paboran ng isang United Nations Committee, kung saan sinasabi na bigo ang gobyerno ng Pilipinas na tulungan ang biktima ng mga pang-aabuso noong World War II. Read more »

Kampo ni Quiboloy nagulat sa parusa ng US Treasury

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 10 06:54 PM

Ikinagulat ng kampo ni Pastor Apollo Quiboloy ng Kingdom of Jesus Christ ang pag labas ng US Treasury Department ng press release patungkol sa kaugnayan nito sa korapsiyon at human rights abuses. Read more »

US Treasury sanctions Quiboloy for 'human rights abuse'

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 10 05:50 PM

A section devoted to Quiboloy’s alleged serious human rights abuses claimed an alleged 'pattern of systemic and pervasive rape of girls as young as 11 years old.' Read more »

Pope urges respect for human rights during Gulf trip

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 12:24 AM

Francis also said religious freedom should be 'complete and not limited to freedom of worship'. Read more »

Mga 'Desaparecidos' inalala ngayong Undas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 08:06 PM

Inalala rin ngayong Undas ang mga tinaguriang 'Desaparecidos' ng kanilang mga kaanak at kaibigan. Read more »

Southern California Fil-Ams rally on martial law anniversary

Steve Angeles | TFC News Los Angeles
Posted at Sep 22 08:47 AM

For young Fil-Am protesters, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s appearance at the UN General Assembly has fueled their fire to remember the victims of the dictatorship. Read more »

Martial law victim at SF protest recounts trauma

Rommel Conclara | TFC News San Francisco
Posted at Sep 22 08:35 AM

Benji Pineda was a student activist in the Philippines protesting the Marcos regime when he was incarcerated by the police. Read more »

Kadamay members tour Bantayog ng mga Bayani to learn about martial law

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 23 07:57 PM

Urban group Kadamay organized a free tour for their members at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to educate them about the Martial Law. Read more »

Talking about martial law facts not enough: historian

Benise Balaoing, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 05:55 PM

A Filipino historian said the Marcoses may be taking advantage of misinformation on the martial law era to regain power. Read more »

Fight efforts to rewrite history: VP Robredo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 11:14 AM

Vice President Leni Robredo called on Filipinos to fight the attempts to whitewash the atrocities committed during martial law. Read more »

China YouTube army rejects Beijing human rights abuses

South China Morning Post
Posted at Sep 13 07:41 AM

With YouTube videos "debunking" allegations of human rights abuses, a group of foreigners are defending Beijing from its international critics. Read more »

Britain to challenge China at UN over access to Xinjiang

Reuters
Posted at Feb 22 08:11 AM

Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given "urgent and unfettered" access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.   Read more »

China-EU talks hit another snag as Biden camp objects

Jack Ewing, Steven Lee Myers and Ana Swanson, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 24 05:33 AM

China, which has long been wary of allowing foreign companies greater access, seems eager to strike a deal now before the new US administration can try to rally a united front against Chinese policies and actions, as Biden has pledged to do. Read more »

Duterte's first order for top cop Sinas: Boost drug war

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 11 04:01 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's first order to his new national police chief Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas is to intensify anti-drug drives, he said Wednesday, even as activists warned of unchecked human rights abuses under his watch.  Read more »

PNP chief Sinas dares critics tagging him in Visayas killings to file charges

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 11 04:19 PM

The new leader of the Philippine National Police, Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas, on Wednesday dared critics who are linking him to killings in Central Visayas to file charges against him. Read more »

PNP Chief Sinas tells critics: 'I am qualified'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 11 03:14 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's pick for new police chief, Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas, told his critics on Wednesday that he was "qualified" for the post, after activists warned of unchecked human rights abuses ahead and a crackdown on dissent under his watch.   Read more »

Palace: Duterte backing for top cop Sinas won't affect mañanita charges

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 01:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's appointment of Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas as the new police chief will not affect the criminal charges that he is facing for a birthday celebration that allegedly flouted protocols to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Malacañang said Tuesday.  Read more »

European Parliament urges PH to grant ABS-CBN broadcast franchise

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 18 05:13 AM

The resolution -- which had 626 votes in favor, 7 against and 52 abstentions -- cited the denial of ABS-CBN's new application of franchise after it expired "as an act of retaliation for the media’s coverage of the anti-drugs campaign and serious human rights abuses." Read more »