Inilunsad ngayon ng Amnesty International Philippines Section (AIPH) ang kanilang mga aktibidades para sa Human Rights Week sa taong 2007. “Sinubukang pagsama-samahin ng Amnesty International Philippines Section ang mga artista, musikero at atleta upang makipagtulungan sa aming mga adhikain para sa...

One of the gravest human rights crises of our time is the fact that more than one billion people are living in extreme poverty. Poverty is not just an issue of lack of income. Poverty is the denial of access to the resources, capability, security and power. All people need all these, in order to...

As an organization concerned with the victims of human rights abuses, Amnesty International Pilipinas welcomes the Philippine Supreme Court’s formulation of the rule governing the Writ of Amparo and its promulgation before the 62nd anniversary of the United Nations on October 24. Amnesty...

(London) Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual assessment of human rights worldwide....

This memorandum submitted to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International contains three parts: Summary of key recommendations from full report “Philippines: Political killings, Human Rights and...

Over recent years the number of killings of political and community activists in the Philippines has continued to increase. The methodology of the attacks has led Amnesty International to conclude that the attacks constitute a politically-motivated pattern of killings. The organization remains...

Media Statement 24 October 2005 Let’s face it, having the faintest and most unrecognized voice in terms of truly engaging in issues on political turmoil and adverse economic situations in the country, the youth is the last one heard. We are only given the opportunity to talk and get our point...

Press Statement 21 October 2005 Amnesty International Pilipinas unconditionally and unreservedly condemns the excessive use of force of the anti-riot police against peaceful demonstrators during the march to Mendiola on the night of October 14. The use of violence by the police to disperse...

Press Release 10 October 2005 Madrid.- In time for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International is again urging President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to abolish the death penalty in the Philippines and grant all death row convicts an executive clemency. The organization has handed...

Press Release 22 June 2005 A group of women staged a picket in front of the Supreme Court today in support to the filing of a disbarment complaint for Atty. Rodrigo A. Reyna. The basis of the complaint is a series of questionable conduct by said lawyer, as well as his involvement in Iris Alberto’s...

Press Statement 22 June 2005 More than 100 women mobilized by the Women Working Together to Stop Violence Against Women (WWTSVAW) trooped to the Supreme Court today to support the filing of the disbarment complaint against Atty. Rodrigo A. Reyna.  The disbarment complaint against Atty. Reyna...

Letter to the Editor 6 May 2005 Dear Editor, On your May 4, 2005 editorial entitled “Sacrifice”, a potent cry along the lines of addressing impunity here in the country was shared with the readers. Amnesty International Pilipinas cannot agree more with the manifested exasperation directed to the...