[STATEMENT] NUJP on Lingao-Tulfo feud
June 24, 2017
At a time when Philippine journalism is being challenged by many Filipinos to be true to its vow of being truthful, balanced...
NUJP on threats vs photojournalist Jes Aznar
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines expresses deep concern at the threats continuously being received by photojournalist Jes Aznar, whose work appears,...
MINDANAO BISHOPS on Marawi and Martial Law
Pursue What Leads To Peace
(Statement of the Mindanao Bishops on Marawi and Martial Law)
To All People of Good Will:
We, Catholic Bishops of Mindanao, address...
Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society on Martial Law, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
25 May 2017
It is unfortunate that we are caught again in a situation where people have to live in high level of fears and...
Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy on the Marawi Crisis
May 25, 2017
The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy strongly condemns the violent attacks perpetrated by lawless elements in the Islamic city of Marawi...
Moro Islamic Liberation Front on declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao
24 May 2017
After the disturbing events that have unfolded in Marawi City, Malacanang has announced that the President has declared Martial Law in the...
Bangsamoro Transition Commission on the clashes in Marawi City
May 24, 2017
The Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), an independent body mandated by Executive Order 08 to draft the Bangsamoro Basic Law, expresses its collective...
KONSYENSYA DABAW: Not Too Late To Back Down On Martial Law In Mindanao
Martial Law is upon Mindanao and Mindanawons once again. We in Konsyensya Dabaw are alarmed that 31 years after the ouster of the Marcos...
INSTITUTE FOR AUTONOMY AND GOVERNANCE: On the Marawi City Crisis and the Declaration of...
The Institute for Autonomy and Governance condemns the reign of terror in Marawi City that destroys the shared values of all men and women...
INTERNATIONAL ALERT: Protect Marawi
We denounce the terror that has blanketed Marawi City, especially as its citizens prepare to enter the holy month of Ramadan. The lockdown imposed...
DND statement on the situation in Marawi City
24 May 2017
In light of what is happening in Marawi City, we call on our fellow Filipinos in Mindanao to be security conscious at...
BAYAN on Duterte’s declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao
Press Statement
May 24, 2017
Renato M. Reyes, Jr. BAYAN secretary general
On Duterte's declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao
Let us be clear, the Maute Group-Abu Sayyaf...
NUJP STATEMENT on use of state-run PNA “to legitimize fake news”
May 20, 2017
PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY c/o
Secretary Martin M. Andanar
Presidential Communications Operations Office
Dir. Virginia ArcillaAgtay
News and Information Bureau
Luis A. Morente
Acting Executive Editor
Lilybeth G. Ison
Acting Managing...
STATEMENT: President, keep the flames of hope burning in the search for peace
In a speech on Friday, May 5, before police officers in Parang, Maguindanao, President Rodrigo R. Duterte said he was “at a loss” and...
STATEMENT: NUJP on Duterte siblings’ threats against local broadcaster
May 5, 2017
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines views with concern the statements of Davao City Mayor Sarah Duterte against broadcaster Dodong...
STATEMENT: Stop Exploiting the Environment! Stop exploiting mine workers!
Earth Day 2017
(Statement of Caraga Watch on Earth Day, 22 April 2017)
It cannot be denied that the greed of large scale mines operating in...
STATEMENT: On Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte coming home with OFWs
PRESS STATEMENT
Mindanao Migrants Center for Empowering Actions, Inc. (MMCEAI)
President Rodrigo R. Duterte came home with at least 138 stranded Overseas Filipino Workers in the...
Statement of the Secretary of National Defense on the NPA’s recent actions against the...
Fellow Filipinos, in the past weeks, the Communist Terrorists who call themselves the New People's Army went on a rampage, burning equipment and properties...
STATEMENT: Martial Law: Not in the name of Mindanao and Mindanawons
Mindanao was used by the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos as part of the justifications for declaring Martial Law. Mindanao figured prominently in Proclamation 1081,...
STATEMENT: PCIJ comment on Tiglao’s column
PCIJ comment on Tiglao’s column
PCIJ stands by its story, “Lascañas pens tell-all journal: Duterte rule ‘a Divine Trap’,” which ran on Feb. 28, 2017.
We...
Statement of Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza re Sulu Beheading
We grieve as we strongly condemn the barbaric beheading of yet another kidnap victim, German Juergen Gustav Kantner in Sulu.
Up to the last moment,...
Vice President Leni Robredo on the Removal of Senate Chairmanships
When we were given the mandate by the people, we were determined to work with this administration to put national interest before politics.
But despite...
KONSYENSA DABAW: No real change in forgetting
Thirty-one (31) years after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, and he and his family and fled the Philippines, Filipinos are continuing the fight...
STATEMENT: Mayor Duterte to Abp Soc Villegas: “You are deeply worse than a hundred...
(Statement of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Archbishop Soc Villegas' letter to the late Cardinal Jaime Sin on the commemoration of the 31st...
LETTER: EDSA is our People’s Cry and God’s loving reply
(Letter of Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines to the late Cardinal Jaime Sin, on the...
NCCP STATEMENT: Restoring the Death Penalty is Missing the Point
February 15, 2017
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) re-iterates its strong objection to death penalty. No person is beyond God’s redemptive...
STATEMENT: All-out Peace rather than All-out War
15 February 2017
Subject: Statement by All-Out Peace on GRP-NDF Peace Talks
For Inquiries: Gani Abunda +63 9989251786 or call 435-2900;911-0205
Alarmed by the recent announcement of an all-out...
STATEMENT: Citizens Alliance for Just Peace on the the GRP-NDF peace talks
8 February 2016
Press Statement
Work on the Gains of the GRP-NDFP Peace Talks!
A Statement of the Citizens Alliance for Just Peace
The Citizens Alliance for Just...
STATEMENT: NUSP condemns Duterte’s mandatory ROTC in Senior High School
8 February 2017
Reference: Mark Vincent D. Lim,
NUSP National Spokesperson (+63) 917 565 4963
In the heels of President Duterte’s latest pronouncements, the National Union of Students of...
STATEMENT: Barug Katungod Mindanao on AFP’s “all-out war”
Barug Katungod Mindanao
For Reference:
Ryan Amper
Spokesperson
AFP’s all-out war to aggravate human rights violations especially in Mindanao
Barug Katungod Mindanao is seeing more human rights violations...
STATEMENT: AFP will hit hard on civilians and rights defenders, not Reds
EXODUS FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
February 7, 2017
PRESS STATEMENT
For Reference: Rev. Jurie Jaime, Spokesperson
It will not be the New People's Army...
NUJP condemns PSG harassment of Palace reporters
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns personnel of the Presidential Security Group who attempted to prevent media from covering a protest...
CBCP Pastoral Statement: “For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who...
(Pastoral statement of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines dated 30 January 2017, at the end of their three-day 114th Plenary Assembly in...
PAHAYAG NG NUJP: “Di po laro ang pagbabalita, Mr. President”
PAHAYAG NG NUJP: “Di po laro ang pagbabalita, Mr. President!”
December 30, 2016
Mawalang-galang po, mahal na Pangulo. Sinasadya ng National Union of Journalists of the...
NUJP Statement on the murder of Catanduanes publisher
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
Statement
December 20, 2016
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the murder of Larry Que, publisher of...
STATEMENT: NUJP on Human Rights Day
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins the commemoration of International Human Rights Day as we remember not only our fallen colleagues...
BAYAN: “We say, enough!”
Press Statement
December 10, 2016
On International Human Rights Day: “We say, enough!”
Human Rights have taken a serious beating the past few months.
The sneaky burial of...
STATEMENT of NDFP peace panel chair Fidel Agcaoili
NDFP Media Office
Statement from NDFP Peace Panel Chair Fidel Agcaoili
December 9, 2016
President Rodrigo Duterte’s allusion to the peace negotiations as a high-stakes poker game...
STATEMENT: Human Rights violations in Mindanao continue to rise amidst peace talks
The worsening human rights violations in Mindanao have been disregarded by the Duterte government despite the unilateral ceasefire of the GRP and his declaration...
STATEMENT: Duterte wrong in defending Albuera mayor’s killers
BAYAN Press Statement
December 8, 2016
President Duterte's recent statements on the killing of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa, that he will not allow the policemen involved to...
ADDRESS TO THE NATION: This is not the time for fear. It is a...
(Address to the Nation by Leni Gerona-Robredo, Vice President of the Philippines, on 5 December 2016)
Ngayong umaga, sinumite namin sa Malacañang ang sulat ng...
STATEMENT: Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process on release of political prisoners
STATEMENT
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus G. Dueza
Washington, DC, 4 December 2016
Earnest efforts have been ongoing on the releases of prisoners. But necessary...
NUJP STATEMENT: The truth can never be silenced, online and off
The truth can never be silenced, online and off
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines deplores the blocking by Facebook of the account...
STATEMENT of NUJP: End Impunity. Justice Now!
NUJP Statement on the 7th Year of the Ampatuan Massacre
November 23, 2016
November 23, 2009 is a day that will forever live in infamy, not...
STATEMENT of NAKP: Stop the killings! End impunity! Human rights for all!
There has been an epidemic of summary killings and extrajudicial executions across the Philippines for decades now. From 1998 to December 2015, a total...
STATEMENT: Why We Are Marching Again
As we have written way back in 2012, we need to be reminded time and again “Lest we have, in the busyness of our work...
STATEMENT of APILA: Marcos Burial is Historical Injustice rewriteten
Marcos Burial is Historical Injustice Rewritten
(APILA’S Public Statement on the Marcos Burial)
The Ateneo Public Interest and Legal Advocacy (APILA) Center of the Ateneo de...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Children’s month and children’s right to participation
Letter to the Editor
On Children’s Month
November 21, 2016
On children’s month and children’s right to participation
November 20 was the anniversary of the United Nations...
STATEMENT: To force our people to move on and to forget is inconsolable and...
STATEMENT
Young Moro Professionals
18 November 2016
There is no darker period in our recent history than the Martial Law era. There is hardly any Bangsamoro family...
STATEMENT: Bad faith
STATEMENT
Konsyensya Dabaw
18 November 2016
Konsyensya Dabaw condemns the burial of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) today for...