Neri Colmenares
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| Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Bayan Muna | |
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In office May 2009 – June 2016 Serving with Teodoro Casiño (15th Congress of the Philippines) and Carlos Isagani Zarate (16th Congress of the Philippines) |
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| Born |
December 4, 1959 Bacolod City, Negros Occidental |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party |
Bayan Muna (party-list representative) Makabayan Partido Galing at Puso (2016) |
| Domestic partner | Shalimar Vitan |
| Alma mater | University of the Philippines College of Law, San Beda College |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Neri Javier Colmenares is a human rights lawyer and activist. He was an Associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D in Law on “The Writ of Amparo and the International Criminal Court”. He also lectured at the University of Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
A Communist born in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Colmenares joined the struggle against Ferdinand Marcos' rule in 1976. He became active in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) and the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), and would become the Visayas Regional Chair of the Student Catholic Action. Soon after becoming a national council member of SCA, he was arrested. Following the end of his detention, Colmenares moved to Manila where he was involved in different religious organizations. In 1983 he shifted to Cagayan Valley to become a youth organizer there. After five months of organizing work in Cagayan Valley, he was arrested by military agents and charged with 'rebellion'. In total, Colmenares was jailed and was tortured in captivity for four years along with Dr. Aurora Parong who was also detained during martial law. Atty. William F. Claver stood as their legal counsel. Colmenares one of the youngest political prisoners at the time. Colmenares is the uncle of actress Angel Locsin.
Rep. Neri Javier Colmenares is a human rights lawyer and is the President of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), a national association of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at San Beda College and completed his law degree at the University of the Philippines College of Law. He lectures in MCLE seminars and in various universities on the Writ of Amparo, Habeas Data, The International Criminal Court and International Humanitarian Law, Oral Advocacy, Constitutional Amendment and the Chacha Cases, Judicial and Congressional Jurisprudence on Impeachment, The Party List Law: Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and the COMELEC, The Constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Law (Human Security Act), Whistleblowers and the Freedom of Information Law and other current legal and constitutional issues.
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