Statement of the Commission on Human Rights condemning the hateful speech against Muslims and sexist remarks during #Eleksyon2025 campaign rallies
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) strongly condemns the discriminatory and hateful remarks recently made by a governor in Misamis Oriental during an #Eleksyon2025 campaign rally. The comments, which included anti-Muslim rhetoric targeting communities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and sexist statements reducing women’s access to nursing scholarship based on appearance, […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights denouncing the killing of a partylist representative of an agricultural workers’ sector
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) decries the brazen ambush of Ponciano Onia, president of the Abono Partylist, which advocates for Filipino farmers in the Congress. Onia, also an incumbent municipal councilor of Umingan town, Pangasinan was ruthlessly attacked and showered with bullets while he was driving home on 07 December 2024. The CHR acknowledges […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights on the killings of barangay officials in Cebu and Maguindanao del Sur
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) condemns the killings of barangay chief Mario Tundag and his wife in Asturias, Cebu, and barangay chairperson Hadji Basit Zangkala in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur. Upon cognisance of these attacks, CHR, through its offices in Regions X and XII, launched its independent motu proprio investigations. The Commission also […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights condemning the killing of an election officer in Sultan Kudarat
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has conducted a Quick Response Operation following the killing of municipal election officer Haviv Maindan in an ambush in Sultan Kudarat on 13 February 2023. Initial police reports say that the victim was traveling with a companion along Lambayong National Highway and was brazenly attacked by still unidentified gunmen […]
Statement of CHR Executive Director, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, lauding the SC decision to allow persons deprived of liberty to vote in national and local elections
It can be recalled that in 2012, a petition was filed with the Supreme Court (SC) seeking to thwart the implementation of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution No. 9371, which allows the participation of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in the national and local elections. The High Court partially granted the Petitioner’s application in 2016 […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on observed election-related violence during the 2022 general elections
Last Monday, 09 May 2022, millions of Filipinos trooped to their polling precinct in exercise of their right to vote. The right of suffrage is an important part of democracy, it is the means wherein individuals participate in the process of government to ensure legitimacy in the powers it has derived from the consent of […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, lauding the COMELEC’s move to ensure voting accessibility for vulnerable groups
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) lauds the move of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to help ensure voting accessibility and participation of vulnerable groups in the incoming national elections through Resolution No. 10761. The issuance states that Emergency Accessible Polling Places (EAPPs) will be established in voting centers to cater to persons with disabilities, […]
Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the killing of an election officer in Northern Samar
Election violence denigrates human rights, particularly the right to life, and creates an atmosphere of fear that impacts the conduct of free and genuine elections—a democratic exercise of the people’s right to vote. As such, the brazen killing of Municipal Election Officer James Diaz Maghanoy, 42, in Lopez de Vega, Northern Samar is strongly condemnable. […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, supporting the call to extend voter registration deadline for the 2022 national election
The ongoing implementation of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and modified ECQ in many locations around the country due to Covid-19 puts a lot of toll and delays in the whole voter registration process in the country. Together with the Senate, Congress, and other civil society organisations, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) joins the call […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on COMELEC efforts to encourage voter registration
The right of suffrage is a political right conferred by the Constitution to every Filipino citizen enabling them to take part in the process of governance to ensure that government representation remains democratic, representative of the will of the people. The circumstances however presented by the pandemic has led to the slowdown of voter registration […]
Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline de Guia, in support of the creation of the Vulnerable Sectors Unit at the Commission on Elections
This is the statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline de Guia, in support of the creation of the Vulnerable Sectors Unit at the Commission on Elections