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Destination Justice is saddened to learn about the murder of Filipina Women’s Rights Defender Zara Alvarez.![]()
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Our team first met Zara in 2015 when joining the international team monitoring her trial in which politically motivated charges of murder and robbery in band were brought against her and 42 other activists in the Negros city of Bacolod (the Philippines). Criminalisation of Human Rights Defenders is a strategy often used by governments to discredit, financially pressure and even jail HRDs who dare to advocate against State’s corruption and rights’ violations. ![]()
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Targeted for her activism, she had petitioned the courts with other defenders to seek protection against the military whom they accused of harassment including surveillance and threatening messages. The Court of Appeal denied such protection in June 2019 mentioning that “there is no evidence that petitioners have been susceptible to harassment and to increased police surveillance”. The case was now waiting for a decision by the Supreme Court. ![]()
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Zara Alvarez was a Women’s Rights Defender (WRD) in Negros Occidental, Philippines. She had worked for the youth organization Anak Bayan; as Deputy Secretary General of the broad political coalition Bayan Negros; for the human rights organization Karapa-tan; and as Education and Campaign for the Negros and North Negros Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (NNAHRA).![]()
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Alvarez was a single mother of an eleven-year-old child.![]()
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Read more on her murder: rappler.com/nation/zara-alvarez-petition-writ-amparo-habeas-data-court
Zara Alvarez asked for protection, but she died before the court could give it
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Don’t miss the Global Rally to Commemorate Myanmar Genocide of 2017, it is now and our co-founder, International Lawyer, Doreen Chen, is speaking right now!
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🏳️🌈 Sharing the F&M Global Barometer on LGBT rights to which our Board member @Celine Martin contributed as a Regional Peer Reviewer Expert.![]()
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Global #LGBT human rights country-by-country findings released today on fandmglobalbarometers.org: With years of data, the first publicly-available Franklin & Marshall College Global Barometer of Gay Rights (#GBGR) report is illustrative of global trends in the protection and persecution of human rights on the basis of sexual orientation.![]()
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New this year is the introduction of a sister barometer, the Global Barometer of Transgender Rights (#GBTR). Overall, sexual orientation minorities fare somewhat better than gender identity minorities, but the global results are depressingly similar.![]()
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How does your country score on the #GBGR and #GBTR?![]()
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Explore the findings and read the report at: fandmglobalbarometers.org
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In honour of today – #GenocidePreventionDay – we urge the Nobel Prize to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of the #NobelPeacePrize over her plans to go to the world court tomorrow to defend and deny #genocide. Sign the petition:
Sign Petition: Stand Against Genocide by Stripping Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize
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