The Center for Women’s Resources join rights groups in the call to investigate the abduction of Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha, a teacher and health worker who went missing ten days before the International Labor Organization’s High-Level Tripartite Mission to the Philippines, this January 23, 2023.
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Statements and media releases and statements from the Center for Women’s Resources
2-month-old baby and pregnant women included in latest victims of AFP’s counterinsurgency tactics
The Center for Women’s Resources joins human rights groups and women’s and child rights organizations in condemning the Philippine military for violating the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) when they held hostage a 2-month-old infant and two pregnant women in a desperate attempt to force surrenderers among revolutionaries.
Baby Rhea, whose parents are both NPA (New People’s Army) fighters, was born while her mother was held captive by the AFP. Baby Rhea was eventually turned over to her grandmother after subsequent demands by different groups.
Suspend the SIM registration, uphold Filipino peoples’ right to privacy!
The Center for Women’s Resources joins civil society, people’s organizations, and all concerned Filipino citizens in calling for the suspension of SIM registration. The first days of the implementation of SIM registration have been marred by technical challenges and threats to digital security and privacy.
Read moreStand with Human Rights Defenders! Defend the Defenders!
The Center for Women’s Resources stands in solidarity with human rights defenders from Gabriela, Karapatan, and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), and reverberates the call to drop trumped-up charges of perjury filed by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. against them.
Read more#RejectSimCardRegistration: Uphold women’s and people’s rights to communication, privacy, and digital security!
Yesterday, October 10, President Marcos Jr. signed the SIM Registration Law, making it the first law enacted under his administration. The law requires users to register their SIM cards using valid government IDs and documents. Legislators in support of the bill claim its relevance as a means to stop fraudulent spam messages and targeted text scams that became a recurring problem experienced by users since the height of the pandemic. Although this is a legitimate problem for many, the SIM Card Registration Law poses risks to women’s rights to communication, privacy, and digital security.
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