Solidarity Philippines Australia Network (SPAN)

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SPAN is a network of Filipino and Australian individuals and organisations active in solidarity with the struggles of the Filipino peoples for Human Rights, Self-Determination, Social Justice, Peace and Democracy.  SPAN identifies with the poor and oppressed majority of the Philippines and acts upon its special concern for women and children in general and indigenous peoples in particular.

You can find out more about the aims and objectives of SPAN in the Aims & Constitution.

SPAN publishes a quarterly newsletter, KASAMA, now in its twenty-sixth year of continuous publication.

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Rappler
Rappler is a social news network where stories inspire community engagement and digitally fuelled actions for social change

WATCH: Maria Ressa: Journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner

WATCH: Maria Ressa’s Nobel speech: ‘Now it’s time to build’

Maria Ressa: Nobel Lecture (Full Text)

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ)
PCIJ is an independent, nonprofit media agency that specializes in investigative reporting

Extra-Judicial Killings in the Philippines

Materials on the Human Rights Violations of the New Peoples Army

The Post-1992 CPP Assassination Policy in the Philippines

Why Kintanar Was Killed - The Real Story By Nathan Gilbert Quimpo

The Human Rights Implications of the Left Purge by Soliman M. Santos Jr

World Council of Churches Statement

PHILIPPINES: Political Killings, Human Rights and the Peace Process (Amnesty International - Summary)

The Killings Must Stop: Statement of European Church and Civil Society Organisations

Forum on Violence Against Movements, Movements Against Violence

Human Rights in the Philippines Under Duterte

Human Rights Watch

Philippines: Events of 2019

Philippines: Events of 2020

Philippines: Events of 2021

Philippines: Events of 2022

Philippines: Events of 2023

World Report 2024

Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is an activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change.

VERA Files
Truth Is Our Business

MindaNews
MindaNews is the news service arm of the Mindanao Institute of Journalism. It is composed of independent, professional journalists who believe and practice people empowerment through media.

Northern Dispatch
Northern Dispatch is an online, alternative media outfit reporting events and issues from the people’s perspective in Northern Luzon.

The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
IWGIA is a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending Indigenous Peoples' rights.

IWGIA's global report, The Indigenous World 2023, provides an update of the current situation for indigenous peoples worldwide.

Country Reports:

Philippines pp 271-279
(by Sarah Bestang K. Dekdeken)
Sarah Bestang K. Dekdeken is a Kankanaey Igorot from the Cordillera region of northern Philippines. She is the current Secretary General of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance, a federation of progressive people’s organizations, mostly grassroots-based organizations among the Indigenous communities of the Cordillera region.

Australia pp 539-546
(by Belinda Kendall and Iain Gately)

Center for Migrant Advocacy

Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA)

CMA advocates for the rights of Filipino migrants everywhere – whether they are land based or sea-based migrants and Filipino immigrants or permanent residents and their families.

SOS  SMS  FOR OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS IN DISTRESS

CENTER FOR MIGRANT ADVOCACY (CMA) - PHILIPPINES

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Centre for Philippine Concerns Australia

Centre for Philippine Concerns Australia (CPCA)

CPCA is a national network of Filipino individuals and organisations in Australia committed to advancing the Filipino people's interests. CPCA was formally established in November 1991 with members living in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territories and in the Philippines itself. CPCA established offices in Melbourne and Brisbane and carried out its activities over many years. CPCA has currently suspended its activities for the time being.

Deaths & Disappearances
Includes updated summary of the Violent Deaths and Disappearances of Filipino Women and Children in Australia as at 18th July 2011.

Confronting Sexual Exploitation
Strengthening Solidarity With Filipino Women Against Sexual Exploitation
Campaign Against Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Filipino Women.
Exposure/Study Tour to the Philippines June l9-July 4, 1995.
Report of the Participants from Australia and Aotearoa/N.Z.

Filipino Women & Sexual Violence: Speaking Out & Providing Services
Paper presented to the Immigrant Women's Support Service Forum "Sexual Violence in a Gender, Cultural and Human Rights Framework" on 24th November, 2000, by Dee Dicen Hunt and Cora Sta. Ana-Gatbonton, Centre for Philippine Concerns Australia (Brisbane Branch). Check out the Immigrant Women's Support Service (IWSS) website.

Filipino Community Organising on Women's Issues in Australia
Paper presented by Dee Dicen Hunt at the 'STOP THE TRAFFIC SYMPOSIUM: Addressing trafficking in women for prostitution' organised by Project Respect held on February 25th, 2002 at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Vivian Alvarez Solon
Comprehensive list of links to Kasama articles about Vivian’s case, submissions from CPCA-Brisbane and Justice Alliance for Vivian to the Senate Inquiry into the administration and operation of the 1958 Migration Act and links to other documents including the Palmer Inquiry Report and the Senate DFAT Committee Interim Report “The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon”

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