Posts Tagged: extrajudicial killings

Public Forum on the State of Human Rights in the Philippines

by Jessica Hawkinson On 19 May 2012, our colleagues in the United Methodist church sponsored a public forum on human rights in the Philippines. In the past year and a half, 67 extrajudicial killings, nine disappearances and 78 political arrests have marked the landscape of the new government in the Philippines. These violations of human… Read more »

WCC Living Letters Team to visit Philippines

An international team of church representatives will pay a solidarity visit to churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society movements in the Philippines from 1 to 5 December. It will be the last in a series of “Living Letters” visits to…

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