This year, the Philippine Government will go through the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) under the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Ten organizations, including the NCCP, under the Philippine UPR Watch submitted their alternative reports to the UNHRC. These reports concluded that the human rights situation in the country has not [...]
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The Program Unit on Faith, Witness and Service recently conducted a Disaster Risk Reduction Seminar among 40 women and youth of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iligan last May 5, 2012. The women and youth saw the magnitude and scope of responding to disaster situation but still, they wholeheartedly committed themselves to the rehabilitation work with [...]
The Program Unit on Ecumenical Education and Nurture annually runs the Summer Internship Program for pastors and church workers-in-formation to provide them a deeper ecumenical understanding that will be one of their anchors when they are finally let go into the field. This year, there are 26 participants from St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, Silliman University [...]
NEW YORK CITY (March 20) — Two Philippine bishops and a former political prisoner on Monday (March 19) said that the human rights situation in the Philippines did not improve under the one-year-and-a-half term of President Benigno Aquino III. “There is no change between the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and President Aquino,” Bishop [...]
Geneva, 9 March 2012 — Speaking at a side event organized by the International Service for Human Rights and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition during the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Tanggol Bayi-Karapatan spokesperson and Philippine UPR Watch convener Cristina Palabay today enjoined international NGOs and women’s [...]
Geneva, Switzerland March 8, 2012 — The Philippine UPR Watch, an ecumenical delegation of Philippine human rights organizations and advocates that engages in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), brought to the attention of the international rights body the continuing human rights violation in the Philippines, and the [...]
Geneva, Switzerland, March 7, 2012 — An ecumenical delegation of Philippine human rights defenders asked for the support of international NGOs and foreign missions based in Geneva to call on the Philippine government “to step up its efforts to arrest Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. and to stop honoring his legacy of military terror and [...]
From September to December of 2011, the NCCP hosted two Norwegian youth interns under the Communications for Change Program. They are Ingrid Holmedahl and Guru Klausen, 19 and 22 years old, respectively. They are safely back in Norway and sent their thoughts about their experience in the Philippines. Both agree that they have learned a [...]
