Neri Javier Colmenares is a Filipino human rights lawyer, activist, and politician. He was an associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D. in law on "The
Colmenares speaking at the protests against the burial of Ferdinand Marcos in 2016
Neri Colmenares, speaking at the International Human Rights Day protest in Manila, December 10, 2020.
Colmenares, speaking at a mobilization against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, December, 2021
Bayan Muna is a national democratic party-list in the Philippines, a member of the leftist political coalition Makabayan. The motto of the party is "New Politics, the Politics of Change", against "tra
Neri Colmenares
…Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Colmenares was the party-list representative for Bayan Muna in the Philippine House of Representatives from 2009 to 2016, and has been its chairman since the 2010s. He was an aspirant in the 2016, 2019, and 2022…
Bayan Muna Congressman Ferdinand Gaite speaking in a mobilization against oil price hike, March 18, 2022.