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Video: Full Webinar on Global Repression of Dissent – Palestine, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
The NLG’s National Office has made available a full recording of this webinar on global repression and resistance, filmed on 3 August 2018. Panelists from the NLG International Committee who discussed state and corporate repression of people’s movements in Palestine, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. (Other recordings of previous NLG webinars are available for streaming at the […]
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October 23, NYC: STOP THE KILLINGS: Duterte’s War on Drugs Through the Lens of Raffy Lerma
Duterte’s War on Drugs Through the Lens of Raffy Lerma Join the NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) for a special event highlighting photojournalist Raffy Lerma’s work that has captured harrowing scenes of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs. Lerma’s photos, featured by the NY Times and other mainstream media outlets, […]
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NLG International Committee and NYCHRP Support Ten Years of People’s Lawyers Fighting for Human Rights
The following statement of greetings to the convention of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines was co-authored by the New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) and the NLG International Committee. Jeanne Mirer, IC co-chair and the president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, of which both […]
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Full Video: Peace Beyond the Peace Talks – Updates on the Philippine Situation with the NDFP Negotiating Panel
The National Lawyers Guild joined the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines to host a series of livestream screenings of a forum on the peace process in the Philippines with representatives of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines negotiating panel on Saturday, August 26. The livestreams took place in cities across the […]
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26 August: Peace Beyond the Peace Talks – Livestream Updates on the Philippine Situation
The National Lawyers Guild is a co-convenor of these forums across the United States along with the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-USA and ICHRP-Netherlands) Join us for a special livestream forum on the stalled peace process in the Philippines with the Peace Process Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front-Philippines based […]
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#RiceNotBullets #FastForFilipinoFarmers April 7-8
As the National Lawyers Guild is a member of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), our comrades in the ICHRP Northern California Network have invited us to participate in a 24-hour solidarity fast with the farmers and Lumad victims of the Kidapawan massacre. The fast will begin on April 7 at 9pm EST (April […]
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NLG IC calls for justice for Kidapawan violence against Philippines farmers and indigenous people
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee expresses its strongest solidarity with the people’s movement in the Philippines following the violent events in Kidapawan, Mindanao, Philippines on April 1, 2016. Over 5,000 subsistance farmers and indigenous Lumads from different parts of the region were protesting on the Kidapawan highway, calling for the release of immediate emergency […]
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Response to Ms. Loida Lewis from IPT Convener National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild, as a convenor of the International People’s Tribunal (IPT), wishes to respond to the comments made by Ms. Loida Nicolas Lewis on Balitang America following the verdict of the IPT finding the Aquino and US Governments are: 1. GUILTY of gross human rights violations involving the civil and political rights of […]
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International Verdict Declares Philippine President Aquino Guilty
WASHINGTON DC– Azadeh Shahshahani, prominent human rights attorney and author, delivered the verdict declaring Philippine President Aquino and the U.S. Government, as represented by President Obama, “GUILTY of gross and systematic violations of human rights.” “Over the past two long, painful and enraging days, We have closely and keenly listened, watched, seen, asked, pondered on […]
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International Tribunal to Hear Rights Violations in the Philippines
The National Lawyers Guild and International Association of Democratic Lawyers are among the co-convenors of an international tribunal to try cases of human rights violations under the presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III, launched on March 12 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City. Dubbed as the International Peoples’ Tribunal (IPT), the initiative […]
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