HR inSIGHTS
Human Rights News Delivered Weekly.
January 2018
Human Rights News Roundup: Week of January 14-20
By PhilRights Staff Welcome to HR Insights, a weekly roundup of human rights news in the Philippines. This week... SEC revokes Rappler’s license; draws widespread flak In what is widely seen as a nakedly political [...]
Human Rights News Roundup: Week of January 7-13
By PhilRights Staff Welcome to HR Insights, a weekly roundup of human rights news in the Philippines. This week... In PH, 60 Human Rights Defenders and at least 4 journalists were killed in 2017 Frontline [...]
December 2017
Cong. Teddy B. Baguilat, Jr.’s Explanation of No-Vote to Extension of Martial Law
Below we are publishing in full the statement of Ifugao Lone District Representative Teodoro 'Teddy' B. Baguilat, Jr. on his No vote on the Congressional authorization to extend martial law on Mindanao from January 1, [...]
Film Review: Smaller and Smaller Circles is a Treatise on Impunity
By Mateo P. Garcia Warning: Some spoilers ahead. We are led to think that a film’s real power lies in its ability to unbind the viewer from the tyranny of their immediate time and place. Great [...]
Be a Human Rights Defender: PhilRights Needs a Licensed Social Worker
By PhilRights Staff We are hiring! The Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) is currently looking to hire one (1) project-based staff who will work with other Human Rights Defenders in producing knowledge, building capacities, [...]
November 2017
“Kami naman po!” says Juvenile Justice Advocates
By PhilRights Staff #ChildrenNOTCriminals Youth participants of the Juvenile Justice Volunteers Congress renewed their opposition to the proposed lowering of the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR) from 15 years old to 12 years old. [...]