September 2021
Education International actively supported its member organisations in the Philippines as they defended human and trade union rights, as well as the right of all students to quality public education.
The Second Report of the Independent International Commission of Investigation into Human Rights Violations in the Philippines (Investigate PH) was released this month. The report documents intensifying human rights violations perpetrated by state agents, in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s security policies and violent statements that have been adopted as...
Philippines: Education unionists targeted by Duterte regime in escalating human rights violations
Education International has called for an end to the violence and state-sponsored attacks on Filipino educators. Its comments follow an independent investigation which shows that the Duterte government is deliberately violating human rights, using violence and repression against those who are standing up for education, democracy, and peace.
Philippines: Call for global action as independent report catalogues government’s human rights violations
Human and trade union rights violations in the Philippines – and the need to highlight evidence of them internationally – were the focus of a high-level roundtable on 8 October.
Philippines: Global solidarity and support to address violations of human and trade union rights