Activists in the Philippines are seeking international pressure to encourage a committee vote in the House of Representatives on a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...
Leila de Lima, a lawmaker with the Mamamayang Liberal Party and human rights activist, called for urgent measures to be taken to end the practice of red-tagging in the Philippines on Saturday. De Lima ...
Social justice groups are starting new satellite groups outside Central L.A. to help Filipinos in the San Fernando Valley.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a lands rights activist in the southern Philippines on Wednesday morning. The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, an alliance of Catholic religious congregations ...
Activists rallied in the Philippines to mark International Human Rights Day amid mounting corruption scandals. Footage shows demonstrators marching through the capital Manila, on Wednesday, carrying ...
The bishops' conference of the Philippines today joined calls from human rights groups for the government to allow a jailed activist to attend the burial of her baby. Andrea Rosal, the daughter of the ...
Environmental activist Francisco Dangla III, who was abducted last year by unidentified men in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, asked the Court of Appeals (CA) not to consider the investigation reports of ...
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A little over a decade ago, indigenous activist Joan Carling from the Philippines Cordillera region lost three colleagues in the space of a few ...