The Philippines has been deemed one of the deadliest countries in the world for land defenders, journalists and trade unionists.

THE BACKSTORY

 

Since 2016, the United States has sent 550 million dollars of aid to the Philippine military and police, not including arms sales. Despite well publicized documentation of state sanctioned and politically motivated killings, mass deplacement of indigenous people due to aerial bombings and repression of press freedom and the harassment of human rights defenders, the United States continues to provide aid to Duterte’s regime.

Since his election, President Duterte has garnered international attention from grassroots organizations, civil society organizations, and governmental and intergovernmental organizations. The human rights violations of the Duterte regime have not failed to gather the attention of people in the United States, especially among the country’s 4 million Filipinos.

In the spring of 2019, members of Kabataan Alliance, the Malaya Movement and the U.S. Network of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, came together to lobby the United States Congress for a hearing featuring the human rights situation in the Philippines alongside a resolution condemning Duterte’s attack on human rights defenders.

Through these lobbying efforts, we have seen many successes:

  • In 2019, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on Southeast Asia where attendees questioned the role U.S. taxpayer money played in human rights abuses.

  • In March 2019, Congress introduced a bi-partisan bill condemning the Duterte administration’s targeting of political opponents.

  • In September 2019, the San Francisco city council passed a resolution condemning the attempted assassination on environmental activist Brandon Lee and calling for the suspension of military aid to the Philippines.

Despite these victories, and the common knowledge that the Duterte administration engages in flagrant and systemic human rights abuses, the United States has recently announced that it intends to pursue a $2 billion arms deal with the Philippines. In an effort to improve the human rights situation in the Philippines and hold the Duterte administration accountable, ICHRP-US, Malaya Movement, and Kabataan Alliance, along with partner organizations have decided to put forward the Philippine Human Rights Act.

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 COALITION FOR THE PHRA

SPONSORS

ENDORSERS

  • Anakbayan-USA

  • BAYAN-USA

  • CODEPINK

  • Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

  • GABRIELA-USA

  • International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines - US

  • Kabataan Alliance

  • Malaya Movement

  • Migrante-USA

  • National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON)

  • 350PDX

  • Action Corps, Action Corps NYC

  • AdvancED Consulting, LLC

  • Alameda County Democratic Party

  • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

  • Anakbayan Chicago

  • Anakbayan Hawai’i

  • Anakbayan Houston

  • Anakbayan North Jersey

  • Anakbayan Portland

  • Anakbayan Rutgers

  • Anakbayan San Francisco

  • Anakbayan SJSU

  • Anakbayan Silicon Valley

  • Anakbayan University of Illinois - Chicago

  • Andrés Bonifacio, Samahan (San Diego State University)

  • Anti Police-Terror Project

  • API Chaya

  • Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)

  • Asian American & Pacific Islander Social Work Collective

  • Asian American Studies Pathways Project

  • Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

  • Associated Students at San Francisco State University

  • Association of Filipino Scientists in America

  • Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW Local 2325

  • Austin Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

  • Barkada NYC

  • Blasian March

  • Boston Pilipinx Education, Advocacy and Resources (PEAR)

  • California Nurses Association

  • California State University Northridge Associated Students, Inc.

  • California-Nevada Philippine Solidarity Task Force

  • California-Pacific Conference United Methodist Church Justice & Compassion Essential Ministry Team

  • Cancel RIMPAC Coalition

  • CannaHelp

  • CCSF Collective

  • Center for Constitutional Rights

  • Center for Political Education

  • Center for International Policy

  • Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

  • Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (CCHRP)

  • Chicago Philippine Solidarity Network

  • Church in Ocean Park (Santa Monica)

  • CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

  • Citrine Ink

  • Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites

  • Communist Workers League - Bay Area

  • Convivir Colorado

  • Council of Philippine American Organizations

  • Council on American-Islamic Relations - San Diego

  • Critical Filipino/a Studies Collective (CFFSC)

  • Dallas Anti-War Committee

  • Dallas Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

  • DSA - Central Jersey

  • DSA - Portland

  • DSA - San Diego

  • DSA - San Francisco

  • DSA - San Francisco Immigration Rights and International Solidarity Committee

  • DSA - Queens

  • DSA - Upper Valley

  • Dirt Media

  • Ecosocialist Horizons

  • Fairfield Change

  • Filipino Community Center

  • Filipino Migrant Center

  • Filipino Ugnayan Student Organization from the University of San Diego

  • Filipino Youth in Action

  • Filipinx Artists of Houston

  • Filipinx Health Initiative

  • Florida State University Filipino Student Association

  • For The People - Long Beach

  • Friends of Latin America

  • Gabriela Chicago

  • Gabriela New Jersey

  • Gabriela Oakland

  • Gabriela Stanford

  • GuateMaya L.A. Mujeres en Resistencia

  • Hawai’i Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

  • Hawai'i Workers Center

  • Hawaiʻi Peopleʻs Fund

  • Hui o Nā Moku

  • Human Rights Alliance for Child Refugees and Families

  • Iglesia Filipina Independiente - New York/New Jersey

  • Improving Dreams Equality Access and Success (IDEAS)

  • Indigenous Environmental Network

  • Inner Route Education Consulting

  • International Committee -Baltimore Teachers Union

  • International League of Peoples’ Struggle - Seattle/Tacoma

  • Kalahi Filipino-American Student Organization

  • Kapwa Health Collective

  • Kasamahan at USF

  • Katarungan DC

  • Kitsap Advocating for Immigrant Rights & Equality (KAIRE)

  • Language Acquisition and Immersion for the New Generation (LAING) Hawai'i

  • Lausan Collective

  • LEAD Filipino

  • League of Filipino Students at SFSU

  • LGBT+ Welfare Rights Alliance

  • Liyang Western Mass

  • Magkaisa Filipino Club Fresno State

  • Malaya Colorado

  • Malaya DMV

  • Malaya Movement Northeast

  • Malaya Movement San Diego

  • Malaya South Bay

  • Malaya Tri-City

  • Methodist Federation for Social Action

  • Michael Jacoby Brown Training and Consulting

  • Migrant Center of New York, Inc. & Franciscan Network on Migration

  • Mindset Collaborative

  • Mount Holyoke Asian Students Association

  • National Ecumenical-Interfaith Forum for Filipino Concerns - Northern California

  • National Federation of Filipino American Associations - San Diego/Imperial Region

  • National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area

  • National Lawyers Guild International Committee

  • National Lawyers Guild Philippines Subcommittee

  • National Ecumenical Forum for Filipino Concerns - Inland Empire (NEFFCON - IE)

  • Network of Religion and Justice for API LGBTQ+ people (NRJ)

  • New Students for a Democratic Society

  • New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

  • New York State Nurses Association

  • Nodutdol for Korean Community Development

  • Northern California Pilipinx American Student Alliance

  • Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance

  • NYC DSA Anti-War Working Group

  • OPAWL - Building AAPI Feminist Leadership in Ohio

  • Our Honor

  • Pagsikapan PASC at CSU Dominguez Hills

  • Palestinian Youth Movement - Houston

  • Pax Christi New Jersey

  • PAYA Fresno

  • People’s Revolutionary Party (Long Beach)

  • People’s Alliance

  • People’s Power Assembly

  • Philippine Cultural Society of the George Washington University

  • Philippine Studies Department, City College of San Francisco

  • Philippines Working Group

  • Philippines-U.S. Solidarity Organization - East Bay

  • Philippines-U.S. Solidarity Organization - San Diego

  • Philippine-U.S. Solidarity Organization - Southern California

  • Pilipino Workers Center San Diego

  • Pilipinx Pre-Law Pipeline (PPP)

  • Pink Hawks

  • Planners of Hawaii

  • Political Student Assembly

  • Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)

  • Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

  • Psychologists for Social Responsibility Hawai`i

  • Samahang Pilipino UCLA

  • San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SFCHRP)

  • San Jose Peace and Justice Center/Collins Foundation

  • Sanctuary Long Beach Coalition

  • Seattle University

  • SEIU Local 73

  • Shadow World Investigations

  • Shoeleather History Project

  • Showing Up for Racial Justice Portland (SURJ PDX)

  • Solidarity JC

  • Soul Stories

  • South Bay Indigenous Solidarity

  • Southern California Pilipinx American Student Alliance (SCPASA)

  • Southwest Brooklyn Tenant Union

  • Stand with Kashmir

  • Stanford American Indian Organization

  • Stanford Kayumanggi

  • Stanford Pilipino American Student Union

  • Stanford Solidarity Network

  • Stanford Students for Workers' Rights

  • Stephanie Gallardo for Congress

  • Storytellers 303

  • Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment

  • Student Labor Advocacy Project (SLAP)

  • Student Labor Advocacy Project at UCLA

  • Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

  • Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA

  • Students United for Palestinian Rights

  • Teeter Comm College Board 2020

  • The Future Left

  • The Local 100 Fightback Coalition

  • The People's Forum

  • The Philippine Cultural Society of the George Washington University

  • The Sisterhood of Pi Nu Iota

  • The Undergraduate Student Government of the University Of Southern California

  • Troy Philippines at the University of Southern California

  • UCLA Undergraduate Student Association Council (USAC)

  • Undergraduate Student Government at the University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Underground Moving Images & Sound Ltd.

  • Union del Barrio

  • United Filipino Club - Seattle University

  • University of California Davis, Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies

  • USC Student Coalition for Asian Pacific Empowerment

  • Weathervane Cafe

  • Western Methodist Justice Movement

  • Wider Church Ministries Team, Central Pacific Conference, UCC

  • Win Without War

  • Workers World

  • Workers World Party - Bay Area

  • Young Democratic Socialists of America - George Washington

  • Young Ecosocialists

  • Young Ecosocialists - New Jersey

  • Zeta Chi Epsilon Fraternity

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