Statement of CHR Executive Director, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, lauding the Philippine Coast Guard for the installation of navigational buoys in the West Philippine Sea
The Commission on Human Rights lauds the Philippine Coast Guard for its installation of five navigational buoys near four Philippine-held detachments in the Kalayaan Island Group (Spratly Islands) in the West Philippine Sea to ensure safer navigation of ships and assert the country’s sovereignty in the disputed waters. The five navigational buoys bearing the Philippine […]
Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the Philippine fishing boat rammed by a Chinese vessel and our right to self-determination
The Commission on Human Rights echoes the condemnation of the Department of National Defense, Department of Foreign Affairs, and other concerned Philippine officials and parties against the acts of a Chinese fishing vessel, which rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat, then merely leaving 22 Filipino fishers as casualties in open water without help. We […]