HAYAG

Read our members, staff, and allies’ latest written pieces on human rights and heroism.

September 25. 2025

DAKILA Statement on the ICC’s Move Toward Justice for the Victims of the Drug War

We in DAKILA remain vigilant on the proceedings of this trial. The ICC process is slow, but it cracks open the wall of impunity that long protected the powerful. This progress shows that accountability is possible, while also reminding us not to let this moment be reduced to mere symbolism or tokenism.

September 25. 2025

DAKILA Statement on the ICC’s Move Toward Justice for the Victims of the Drug War

We in DAKILA remain vigilant on the proceedings of this trial. The ICC process is slow, but it cracks open the wall of impunity that long protected the powerful. This progress shows that accountability is possible, while also reminding us not to let this moment be reduced to mere symbolism or tokenism.

September 24. 2025

DAKILA Statement on the Violent Dispersal and Mass Arrests of the Youth in Manila

DAKILA stands with the youth, with all victims of poverty and state violence, and with every Filipino demanding a society where justice is not weaponized against the powerless but wielded against those who exploit them.

March 13, 2026

A Full Marathon of Resistance

In the Philippines, more people are now running. Cities are seeing a rise in early-morning run clubs. Marathons and fun runs sell out within days. River esplanades, parks, and city streets are filling out with people chasing personal records, finish-line medals, and the quiet discipline of putting one foot in front of the other. What used to be a solitary activity is slowly becoming collective, and in that growing crowd, more and more women are running too.

Women running alone or running in groups. Women training for their first 5K, their first half marathon, their first 42.195 race, each one of them claiming space that women have long been told to approach with caution.

March 8, 2026

“I think she should take it as a compliment.” “I apologize kung…”

February 25, 2026

People Power: Kuwarenta Na, May Kwenta Pa Ba?

Sara D in 2028? People Power is my President

If corruption continues without resistance, then People Power survives only in memory. If corruption is confronted, then People Power lives.

February 11, 2026

A House is Not Yet a Home: DAKILA’s Statement on the SC Ruling on Same-Sex Co-Ownership

We in DAKILA remain vigilant on the proceedings of this trial. The ICC process is slow, but it cracks open the wall of impunity that long protected the powerful. This progress shows that accountability is possible, while also reminding us not to let this moment be reduced to mere symbolism or tokenism.

September 25. 2025

DAKILA Statement on the ICC’s Move Toward Justice for the Victims of the Drug War

We in DAKILA remain vigilant on the proceedings of this trial. The ICC process is slow, but it cracks open the wall of impunity that long protected the powerful. This progress shows that accountability is possible, while also reminding us not to let this moment be reduced to mere symbolism or tokenism.

September 24. 2025

DAKILA Statement on the Violent Dispersal and Mass Arrests of the Youth in Manila

DAKILA stands with the youth, with all victims of poverty and state violence, and with every Filipino demanding a society where justice is not weaponized against the powerless but wielded against those who exploit them.