Red calendar days
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In solidarity with victims, survivors, and their families – commemoration of 49th Martial Law Declaration
Magkaibang panahon ngunit tila nasa parehas pa rin na sitwasyon. Halos limang dekada na ang nakalipas, ngunit ang laban para sa hustisya at pananagutan ay patuloy paring hinahagilap ng mamamayan. MANINDIGAN PARA SA KARAPATAN, DIKTADURYA LABANAN!NEVER AGAIN TO MARTIAL LAW! #NeverAgain #NeverForget #DefendHumanRights #EndImpunity #DutertePanagutin
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Rehimeng Duterte, Wakasan! Panagutin! #WAKASona
Sa huling SONA ng kasalukuyang administrasyon, nananawagan ang taumbayan, kasama ng iba’t ibang sektor, at progresibong grupo: #DutertePanagutin #KarapatanHindiKarahasan #KabuhayanHindiPatayan #TUMINDIG #WAKASona
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“Philippine government must guarantee health care of persons deprived of liberty and decongest prison population to reduce the risk of COVID 19 spread”, UATC Press Release on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2021
United Against Torture Coalition (UATC) – Philippines June 26, 2021 PUBLIC STATEMENT Philippine government must guarantee health care of persons deprived of liberty and decongest prison population to reduce the risk of COVID 19 spread. Today, the United Against Torture Coalition (UATC)-Philippines, a network of 20+ CSOs of human rights organizations and individual human rights…
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Solidarity Night on the 10th Anniversary of the Anti-Torture Law (Republic Act 9745)
MAG has joined a solidarity night in November 2019, with the UATC and the OMCT, together with Commission of Human Rights (CHR) Commissioner Chito Gascon, on the celebration of the 10th year after the Anti-Torture Law has been signed into law. The activity sis geared towards celebrating the journey of the law, its win, and…
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Commemoration of the 47th year of Martial Law
MAG has joined a mobilization in Metro Manila, with the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), along with other progressive organizations, religious groups and partner communities, on September 2019, to commemorate the Martial Law period through a program where some of the survivor-victims shared their experiences on human rights violations. After this, a religious…
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Make Philippines A Torture Free Zone! Rights groups run against torture
On its seventh year, in commemoration of the June 26 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Medical Action Group (MAG) joined the United Against Torture Coalition (UATC)-Philippines and various anti-torture advocates in the “Basta! Run Against Torture 7” (BRAT VII) to call on the government to make the Philippines a Torture Free…
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Joint investigators and prosecutors training for the first time to fight torture
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/video/149187/balitanghali/ilang-imbestigador-at-prosecutor-sumailalim-sa-isang-joint-training-vs-torture Video excerpt from GMA News, Balitanghali, January 24, 2013
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10 days of activism against torture
Dear Members of the SOS-Torture Network, We allow ourselves to contact you for your support and participation in the upcoming 10th of December, the Human Rights Day. As part of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) global campaign that many of you have already endorsed ‘Nothing can justify torture’ we are launching 10 days of activism against…
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Noted Filipina doctor named to UN anti-torture body
By: InterAksyon.comOctober 26, 2012 3:01 PM A Filipina doctor from the University of the Philippines has been elected to be one of twelve new members of an international body that checks jail conditions of detainees in more than 60 countries. Dr. June Pagaduan Lopez, a professor at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of…
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Charity beds and Universal Health Care
‘Installing a fully functional universal health care model that benefits most Filipinos requires serious and rational debates.’ IN the run-up to the President’s third State of the Nation Address, the Aquino administration’s program of government came under a barrage of criticism from a broad range of sectors – from well-meaning allies sincerely trying to be…
