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Kami ang Nagbabantay, Bakit Kami Sinasalakay?
Mariing kinokondena ng Defend NGOs Alliance ang ginagawa ng administrasyong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na kriminalisahin ang mga nagdaang kilos-protesta laban sa korapsyon at sa panawagan ng pananagutan ng mga mamamayan sa mga sangkot sa korapsyon. Habang ang mga personalidad na sangkot sa isyu ng korapsyon sa flood control ay patuloy na nakaiiwas sa hustisya, inaatake naman ng pulisya ang mga nagbabantay kontra korapsyon โ mga kabataan, magsasaka, mangingisda, manggagawa at iba pa
Defend NGOs Alliance
Oct 30, 2025
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Solidarity Message of Ms. Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Bugkos 2025
Hello, everyone, and thank you for inviting me to speak at this event to mark World Humanitarian Day. ย Around the globe, humanitarian...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Sep 3, 2025
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Solidarity message of Ms. Signe Poulsen, Senior Human Rights Adviser of UN OHCHR for Bugkos 2025
Dear Friends in the humanitarian community, Let me first thank the organizers, the Defend NGOs Alliance National and Visayas, together...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Sep 3, 2025
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Defend NGOs Alliance hails judicial victories for HRDs
The Defend NGOs alliance welcomes recent judicial victories that saw the acquittal of human rights defenders (HRD) Rev. Nathaniel...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Jun 9, 2025
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Letter to the Editor: The Philippine Star (PhilStar)
Letter to the Editor The Philippine Star (PhilStar) โThis is in reference to your news article โNPA finance officer nabbed in Boholโ by...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Jun 5, 2025
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Defend NGOs welcomes dismissal of PDG case; renews call to end attacks on NGOs
STATEMENT May 6, 2025 The Defend NGOs Alliance lauds the decision of the Iloilo Regional Trial Court Branch 31 in April 22, 2025 denying...
Defend NGOs Alliance
May 6, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025- Side event on Role of OGP in HRD Protection
The Defend NGOs Alliance and the Council for Peopleโs Development and Governance (CPDG) cordially invite you to our side event themedย ...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Jan 27, 2025
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Sign-on Statement to Call for the Immediate Release and Drop the Trumped up Charges Against Five Development Workers in Negros Occidental, Philippines
We, the undersigned, urgently call for public support for the immediate release of two development workers and the cancellation of...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Jan 5, 2025
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Marcos Jr admin sacrificing NGOs to exit FATF โgrey listโ
The Defend NGOs Alliance denounced increasing judicial attacks on NGOs and peopleโs organizations (POs) under the Marcos Jr...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Dec 4, 2024
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Shrinking Civic Spaces on the 4th year of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)
On July 2, 2024, civil society organizations raised the alarm on increasing attacks on non-governmental organizations and people's...
Defend NGOs Alliance
Jul 8, 2024
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Anti-Terror Law @ 4: A Press Conference by the Defend NGOs Alliance
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Defend NGOs Alliance
Jul 2, 2024
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Civil society alarmed by growing attacks on development NGOsโ Council for People's Development and Governance (CPDG)
Press Conference during Pag-Alabin: People Development, A Forum-Exhibit on CSOs Good Practices in Development held from May 21 and 23 at...
Defend NGOs Alliance
May 27, 2024
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Conviction of Frenchie Mae and Marielle, A Repression of Civic Space
The Defend NGOs Alliance strongly denounces the conviction of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and lay worker Marielle Domequil, a ruling that lays bare how the Philippine justice system has been weaponized to criminalize dissent, silence truth tellers, and terrorize civil society into submission. This conviction is not justice. It is repression dressed up as due process. Frenchie Mae and Marielle have been deprived of their freedom for nearly six years through fabric
Civil Society Urge Passage of Anti-Red Tagging Legislation
The Council for Peopleโs Development and Governance (CPDG), together with the Defend NGOs Alliance, stands in unwavering solidarity with Atty. Antonio Gabriel โDean Tonyโ La Viรฑa and all human rights defenders (HRDs) who continue to face grave threats to their lives, security, and freedom as a result of red-tagging. Last December 2025, retired Lt. General Antonio Parlade, former spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), publicl
End the Political Harassment of Carmilo Tabada and All Development Workers - DefendNGOs Alliance
The Defend NGOs Alliance denounces the recent legal harassment of development worker and community leader Carmilo Tabadaโcurrently facing revived charges long dismissed by the courts.ย Tabada is currently Barangay Councilor of Brgy Poblacion, Trinidad, Bohol. ย The Alliance sees Tabada's arrest as part of the Philippine governmentโs escalating use of anti-terrorism and financial suppression mechanisms to intimidate and constrain independent civic action. The continuing harras
End Lawfare and Red-Tagging Against Development and Humanitarian Workers
DefendNGOs Alliance asks development actors to support urgent actions to reclaim civic space. This includes reviewing and moving towards amending or repealing the ATA, related terrorism financing laws, EO 70, and ultimately abolishing the NTF-ELCAC.
Hands off TABI, stop attacks on development workers โ DefendNGOs Alliance
Defend NGOs Alliance stands in unwavering solidarity with Tarabang Para sa Bicol (TABI) and strongly calls out the brazen red-tagging and harassment of its staff and consultant. These attacks are not just liesโthey are acts of cruelty against individuals whose work has protected lives, nurtured communities, and built resilience where the state has failed or withdrawn. To target them is to attack the very essence of humanitarian service. For years, TABI has strengthened disast
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