DIGNITY concerned over recent threats to human rights defenders in the Philippines
Balay denounces Marcos burial like a “thief in the night”
Balay has likened to an act of a “thief in the night” the secretive manner of the burial of the late deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LnmB-“Hero’s Cemetery”) on November 13.
Jail congestion and the challenge of humane safekeeping tackled in forum to mark 10th year of OPCAT
The Balay Rehabilitation Center, convener of the United Against Torture Coalition in the Philippines (UATC) and civil society prime mover of the accession of the Philippines to the Optional Protocol To The Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), has organized a forum to mark the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the OPCAT in Hotel Rembrandt on November 11, 2016.
Anti-Torture Coalition denounces Marcos burial like a “thief in the night”
A network of civil society organizations which advocate for the eradication of torture and ill treatment in the Philippines has likened the sudden manner of the burial of the late deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LnmB) today as a “thief in the night.”