Today and tomorrow, allies to the Filipino community will be on Capitol Hill to strengthen the campaign for the passage of the Philippine Human Rights Act.
The Philippines Human Rights Act would withhold security assistance to the country until its government properly reforms its police and military and takes steps to protect targeted civilians. The act is necessitated by instances of threat and defamation by "red-tagging" and other forms of intimidation, in addition to extrajudicial killings and unlawful detentions and arrests by the military and police, targeting church leaders, indigenous peoples, peasant farmers, Christian and Muslim community members, lawyers, and journalists. We covered some of these issues in our latest editions of NewsNotes and in a World Watch column of the Maryknoll Magazine.
Now is the time to bolster the work that activists are doing in-person with action you can take with the click of a button. Use the form below to tell Congress to sponsor and support the Philippines Human Rights Act, H.R. 1433.