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The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is an independent office created by Section 18, Article XIII of the Philippine Constitution, with the primary function of investigating all forms of human rights violations involving civil and political rights in the Philippines. The commission is composed of a Chairperson and four members, majority of which ...
The Kingdom of Bahrain has been addressed by the European Union regarding its human rights records several times in the past. After the last dialogue between EU and Bahrain held on 7 November 2019, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights conducted an early 2021 dialogue with Bahrain raising the issue of prison torture, repression of freedom of expression and association, and arbitrary ...
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (Filipino: Pambansang Komisyon sa mga Pilipinong Muslim; Arabic: اللجنة الوطنية لمسلمي الفلبين : allajnat alwataniat limuslimi alfilibiyn) is a government agency in the Philippines, whose objective is to promote the rights of Muslim Filipinos and to make them active participants in Philippine nation-building.
The Philippine military said that the report could not be verified and said that there was no ISIL recruitment in the Philippines at that time. The Department of Foreign Affairs during this time has been receiving unverified reports of Filipinos training to fight for ISIL in Syria.
The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
Those suspected of orchestrating the attack in Marawi were members of Daulah-Islamiyah Maute, a pro-Islamic State militant group that took control of the city in 2017 and held it throughout five ...
According to Philippine laws, terrorism is a crime under the Human Security Act of 2007 which describes such acts as causing "widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace". The first group to be officially listed as a terrorist organization under the law was the Abu Sayyaf on September 10, 2015, by the Basilan provincial court ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Sunday that killed at least four people and injured 50 others. The ...