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“Make Human Rights the core of your governance.”- HR groups challenge candidates
Press release February 24, 2016 “Make Human Rights the core of your governance.”- HR groups challenge candidates Human rights groups today challenged all candidates in the 2016 national and local elections to support the Human Rights Agenda as their electoral platform. Gathering in the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Quezon City, at a media…
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30th EDSA Anniversary #EDSA30
MEDIA ADVISORY PLEASE COVER: Note to News Desk/Editors: We would be grateful if you would send reporter and photographer to the following event: 30th EDSA Anniversary #EDSA30 MEDIA and PUBLIC FORUM “Human Rights from Aquino to Aquino” EDSA@30: A Civil Society Assessment of Gains, Reverses and Challenges Human Rights Agenda 2016 for Election…
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Protect Human Rights Defenders
The Medical Action Group (MAG) in its activities continuously made efforts to work with the UN system with a mandate to protect human rights defenders through continuous communication and joint submission of reports to relevant stakeholders. The submission is part of the “Use of Evidence Based Approach to Human Rights Documentation and Monitoring for the…
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URGENT APPEAL: Frustrated Murder of Human Rights Defender
URGENT APPEAL January 13, 2016 (PHILIPPINES) Frustrated Murder of Human Rights Defender ISSUES: Assertion to right to land of indigenous people —- Dear friends, The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) is forwarding to you an appeal regarding the frustrated killing of an agrarian reform beneficiary. If you wish to make any inquiries please…
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CALL FOR IMMEDIATE JOB APPLICATIONS
The Medical Action Group, Inc., a health and human rights organization founded in 1982, continuously works to empower vulnerable sectors of society and victims of human rights violations by increasing their capacities to claim for their rights particularly their right to health. MAG has a three-year project funded by Misereor International to be implemented in…
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Medical doctors presses for right to rehabilitation of victims of torture
Press release November 11, 2015 Medical doctors presses for right to rehabilitation of victims of torture Around eighty (80) medical doctors across the country gathered today in the Scientific Conference on the Management and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims on November 11-12, 2015 at the Ciudad Christia Resort, in San Mateo, Rizal. The conference also entitled, Mainstreaming…
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“Change for the Planet – Care for the People”
DKA Austria #Orthman Superhero (video) campaign ÖRTHMAN on COP21 in Paris. It is part of the international campaign “Change for the Planet – Care for the People” of the international alliance of Catholic development agencies CIDSE: http://www.cidse.org/rethinking-development/change-for-the-planet-care-for-the-people.html The story: We have invented an Austrian super hero: ÖRTHMAN (Earthman – the spelling follows the German pronunciation; “Ö”…
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SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON THE HEALTH SECTOR’S IMPLEMENTATION OF RA 9745
ANNOUNCEMENT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON THE HEALTH SECTOR’S IMPLEMENTATION OF RA 9745 Theme: “Mainstreaming Human Rights in Public Health” A violation of one’s right demands for a remedy. Torture is one of the gravest forms of human rights violation. . It is a deliberate act of cruelty by inflicting severe physical and emotional sufferings against any…
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Paramilitary groups, impunity….the entrenched legacies of martial law
Press release September 23, 2015 Paramilitary groups, impunity….the entrenched legacies of martial law More than nine months for the Aquino administration term end, his administration will be remembered for lost ground on important measures of breaking impunity which is the entrenched legacy of martial law, said the Medical Action Group Inc. (MAG), Task Force Detainees…
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BREAKING THE SILENCE FROM TORTURE IMPUNITY
Statement from the Medical Action Group, Inc.June 26, 2015International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (IDSVT) BREAKING THE SILENCE FROM TORTURE IMPUNITY Torture is considered a crime under the international human rights law. It is prohibited everywhere, at all times, and no exceptional circumstances whatsoever can be used to justify it. However, the abominable…
