Listen to Bae Theresa’s Kwentong Tibak, and learn the story of the Manobo Pulangiyon.

Bilang Tibak, tayo ay…nangangarap para sa katarungan, kalayaan, at buhay,nagmamahal ng sarili, kapwa, at komunidad, nagpoprotesta para maisakatuparan ang kinabukasang gusto nating matamo.Ito ay ating kwento…

Responding to the news on President Marcos Jr.’s 2025 budget for NTF-ELCAC, Amnesty International Philippines Section Director Butch Olano said:

Cebu City – Activists and human rights defenders in the Visayas are caught in a very dangerous situation between standing up for human rights and fighting for their lives amid attacks and red-tagging, said Amnesty International Philippines during the Cebu leg of its Amnesty International State of the World’s Human Rights 2023/24 Report rolling launch.

Authored by: Rep. Edcel C. Lagman 

– Eddi Ndopu, Sustainable Development Goals advocate

Leila de Lima was jailed under former President Rodrigo Duterte, who led the so-called “war on drugs” that has killed thousands in the Philippines. A Senator at the time, Leila was one of Duterte’s most prominent critics before bogus charges were brought against her using witness testimony that was later retracted in a process that took nearly seven years. 

Former President Rodrigo Duterte helped pave a seamless road for the Marcos family to fulfill their lifelong mission of distorting history and shrouding the Filipino peoples’ memory with doubts in their desire to reinstall their family’s influence and clout in Philippine politics and business. Only a little over a year in the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., the horrors of his father’s dictatorship marked by human rights violations, abuses, and atrocities have already been botched using subtle but significant load of propaganda and political nudges, ironically being maneuvered using taxpayers’ money, creeping its way one institution after another.

Many LGBTQIA+ individuals–Filipinos with diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE)–are struggling against discrimination every day. Daily injustices that span from side-eyes, tasteless jokes, and misgendering to being denied access to social services and adequate healthcare, gatekept from jobs and learning opportunities, subjected to harassment and violence from their own communities, and deprived of means and mechanisms to demand accountability.

Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, were last seen in Taytay town, Rizal province, on 28 April 2023. Witnesses state that two men matching Dexter and Bazoo’s descriptions were forcibly taken by unknown individuals identifying themselves as working for a police agency, around the time and place where the two activists were last seen.  

In Türkiye, Pride faces a battle on two major fronts: LGBTI rights are under increasing attack, while the right to protest has been severely limited for years. Since 2015, Pride events have been systemically banned in Türkiye, preventing LGBTI people from demanding their rights.

On the 50th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in 2022, Amnesty International Philippines started its year-long teach in on generational trauma brought about by the Marcos dictatorship to children and families of Martial Law heroes and survivors.