The resolution also recommended that, given the serious human rights situation, the European Commission should immediately initiate the procedure that could lead to the temporary withdrawal of the preferential trade benefits that the Philippines currently enjoys in trade with the EU.
Be The Wheat!
We are challenged today to be the wheat sowed by Jesus into the field, the world. But we can only respond to this challenge when like Jesus we know who among our societies are the weeds sowed by the devil.
Online Forum and Protest Against Duterte’s Anti-Terrorism Law
“I encourage my former colleagues, members of the Parliament, to use this holiday, to do something really important meaningful, to use this break to fight for human rights in the Philippines and anywhere else in the world…
Deep Faith empowers a revolution
Jesus did not sanction oppression. He saw the poverty of people, even in his family’s situation. “He will cast the down the mighty from their thrones…” (Luke 1:52) He fought against the throne of power, a power structure that makes the poor poorer. He admonished the established order of religion, colluding and in bed with […]
Uniting Migrants, Asserting our Rights!
The resource speakers provided key messages related to the common call of the April 28 Coalition on the full citizenship rights for migrants and refugees.
FOR WE ARE CALLED TO FREEDOM
From within, Duterte’s rising tyrannical rule has resulted to the jeopardy of people’s well-being and dignity by its increasing incidence of human rights violations, extra-judicial killings and wanton disregard of the fundamental laws of the land.
Forum on United Nations Report on the Philippine Human Rights Situation
“The report is highly significant, relevant, and timely for the Filipino people concerning the ongoing situation and what needs to be done. It is mainly and essentially a condemnation of human rights violations and impunity under the Duterte regime,”
Inequality & Injustice is the Epicentre of the Pandemic
With the pandemic, the long under-funded and neglected health care systems and the debilitating shortages of health workers even among industrialized countries, is putting an enormous strain on its already depleted resources and its capacity to provide urgent and quality care for all.
Situationer: Migrants and Refugees in Europe
Migrants and immigrants share the commonality on the root cause of migration. Migration now becomes a forced choice, if we still can consider it a choice, for people to earn for a living and conserve the dignity as a person.
One Year Now in Europe
It was supposed to be a short and temporary exile, as I still feel it to be until now. Circumstances and worsening situations for human rights defenders in the Philippines, however, made it to extend my tourist status until I got a residency visa for a period of another one year until I realized that I am already here for a year today. Happy or sad? Not exactly. The feeling is ambiguous but surely thankful.
The Theology of Struggle. 