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May 13, 2016 Dear President Duterte, We congratulate you on your overwhelming victory in the May 2016 polls. The Filipino people have spoken, and they chose change. You sweeping victory is testament to how Filipinos, wherever we are in the world, thirst...
Press Statement June 12, 2015 On the occasion of June 12, Bayan calls on the Filipino people to stand in defense of national sovereignty and territorial integrity against the foreign powers that seek to tear the Philippines apart. Today we are...
Dear friends, Karapatan shares with you this statement of a member organization Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR)  on the results of their fact finding mission on the fire incident at the factory of Kentex Manufacturing Incorporated which...
This humanitarian crisis needs to be immediately and collectively resolved by all governments before more innocent lives are lost. It will be such a shame to see them, stakeholders to the sustainable development goals that all States are crafting and finalizing now, die because we failed to take proactive measures to save them and resolve the situation.
It is with utmost jubilance that we announce to all Filipinos and supporters here in the Philippines and around the world that the Indonesian government has suspended the implementation of the death sentence on our kababayan Mary Jane Veloso...
Statement of the International Migrants' Alliance - Europe Section against the arbitrary arrests of members of the Confederation of Turkish Workers in Europe (ATIK) The International Migrants'Alliance Europe section strongly denounces the arbitrary and unlawful arrests of  12 activists and...
(Dr. Efleda K. Bautista, chairperson of People Surge, an alliance of victims of supertyphoon Haiyan shows her solidarity with refugees in Amsterdam who are threatened to be thrown out of the streets after being denied recognition as political refugees....
April 1, 2015 With hopes still raised high, we humbly and sincerely appeal to Your Excellency that the Indonesian Government spare the life of Filipina Mary Jane Veloso who was convicted in your country for drug trafficking and sentenced to...
Noynoy Resign Now! The Ugnayang Pilipino sa Belgium (UPB) forms part of the more than 10 million Filipino migrants around the globe trying to earn by all means to support their families in the Philippines. Any calamity back home be...
Prepared by Migrante International, July 2014 After four years of corruption, mendacity, puppetry, oppression and human rights violations, Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III (BS Aquino) has once again roused the Filipino people into collective action and determination to exercise their...

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