human rights
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Urgent Appeal for Action: Surface William Lariosa!
Urgent Appeal for Action: Enforced Disappearance of William Lariosa and Escalating Attacks on Labor Organizers and Workers’ Rights Defenders in Southern Mindanao Region We urgently appeal for national and international solidarity and support in response to the alarming escalation of threats, harassment, violence and enforced disappearance targeting labor organizers, union leaders and workers’ rights defenders…
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Hustisya para kay Kal Peralta! Panagutin ang AFP-PNP sa paglabag sa karapatang pantao at international humanitarian law!
Kinukundena ng KMU ang walang-habag na pagpaslang ng mga elemento ng AFP kay Kaliska Dominica “Kal” Peralta, dating lider-estudyante sa UP Diliman na nagpasyang manilbihan sa masang magsasaka at katutubo sa kanayunan. Inihiwalay sa kanyang mga kasamahan at saka pinaslang si Kal nang di na ito armado sa isang tahasang paglabag sa internasyunal na makataong…
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SURFACE ECO DANGLA III AND JAK TIONG!
Kilusang Mayo Uno denounces the abduction of environmental rights defenders “Eco” Dangla III and Axielle “Jak” Tiong. According to eyewitness accounts, Eco and Jak were severely beaten up and taken into an SUV around 8 PM yesterday, March 23 at Barangay Polo, San Carlos, Pangasinan. Eco and Jak strongly opposed the environmental damages of multi-national…
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PLTCOL Jerry Castillo at PNP, panagutin sa Karahasan sa Batasan!
Kilusang Mayo Uno, KILOS NA Manggagawa filed a formal complaint before the Commission on Human Rights today pertaining to several incidents of police brutality and violent dispersal during protests in front of the House of Representatives. Groups have reported at least four incidents of police using violence to stifle mass actions by workers, jeepney drivers,…
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Stand with Palestine!
The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May First Movement Labor Center) stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their valiant resistance against their oppressors. We support the Palestinian resistance against decades of genocidal war and occupation. We recognize that this resistance is a result of the systemic oppression and injustice against the Palestinian people.…
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Cebu workers first casualty of EO 23
Militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) slammed Marcos Jr’s EO 23 that created the so-called “Inter-Agency Committee for the Protection of the Freedom of Association and Right to Organize of Workers.” The labor group said that the implementation of the order proves otherwise – it is a monster preying on workers’ rights and not…