June 23, 2021
The Commission welcomes the latest announcement from the Department of Health (DOH), which reports that over two million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As of 20 June 2021, a total of 8,407,342 doses have so far been administered with 6,253,400 shots accounting for the first dose and 2,153,942 were for the second dose. […]
September 17, 2021
The Commission on Human Rights, through its Region XII office, is now conducting an independent probe on the brazen killing of lawyer Juan Macababbad. According to initial reports, the lawyer was gunned down outside his house in Surallah, South Cotabato, on 15 September 2021, at around 5:30 PM. Macababbad is known as a people’s lawyer. […]
August 5, 2021
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) recognises the hard work of local government units (LGUs) in ensuring public access to Covid-19 vaccines. However, we note that there is still room for improvement in ensuring the health and safety of people queuing up for the vaccination. A day before NCR is placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine, […]
March 29, 2021
Yesterday, 28 March 2021, as most Filipino Catholic faithfuls commemorate the start of the Holy Week, another union leader was gunned down. Dandy Miguel, vice chairperson of Pamantik – Kilusang Mayo Uno, was killed by unknown assailants while riding his motorcycle. The Commission on Human Rights is one with labor rights groups in decrying this […]
March 4, 2021
Lawyer Angelo Karlo ‘AK’ Guillen, one of the legal members working for the petition of various multi-sectoral groups against the anti-terror law, was allegedly stabbed by masked men yesterday, 3 March 2021, at around 9:15 PM in Iloilo City. According to the report of the Iloilo police, the attackers mauled the lawyer before stabbing him […]
December 3, 2020
The arrest of Amanda Lacaba Echanis yesterday, 2 December 2020, is the latest in a string of arrests and attacks against alleged members of the New People’s Army. Her father, Randy Echanis, Chair of Anakpawis and Deputy Secretary General of KMP, was slain last 10 August 2020, and his death remains unsolved. Considering that Echanis […]
May 6, 2020
A radio broadcaster was murdered yesterday, 5 May 2020, on the same day that a media giant was shut down and only 3 days after World Press Freedom Day. On his way home, Rex Cornelio, a news reporter and announcer in DYMD Energy 93.7 FM was shot in Barangay Daro, Dumaguete City. He is the […]
April 2, 2020
The primacy of human rights even in times of a national health emergency means that due process and the rule of law still apply. Even stricter restrictions, such as the enhanced community quarantine seen to protect the people’s right to health, are guided human rights standards and principles. Even before, the Commission has expressed alarm […]
March 24, 2020
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that an outbreak of the viral disease COVID-19 – first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China – had reached the level of a global pandemic. Citing concerns with “the alarming levels of spread and severity,” the WHO called for governments to take urgent and […]
February 13, 2020
The Commission on Human Rights strongly condemns the recent killing of Mayor Abdul Wahab Sabal of Talitay, Maguindanao by two unidentified gunmen riding in tandem. According to reports, Mayor Sabal was gunned down in Malate, Manila by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle just outside a hotel along Quirino Avenue, shortly after 10 P.M. Sabal is […]
November 13, 2019
The Commission on Human Rights lauds the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and BI-NAIA 3 travel control and enforcement unit (TCEU) for successfully preventing a human trafficking attempt at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). On Sunday, 10 November 2019 the Bureau of Immigration reported the foiled attempted trafficking of 4 women illegally recruited to work […]
January 9, 2019
The Commission raises concern once more on the growing trend of tagging vocal groups or individuals as “leftist” or “communist” with the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines as the latest organization to be labeled as such. This fresh attack on media imperils the state of press freedom and leads to the weakening of […]