July, 2009
Enough of the human rights violations! Enough of Gloria Arroyo!
Submitted on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 16:56
Today, human rights advocates under the banner of Karapatan, and relatives of victims of human rights violations Hustisya! (Victims of Arroyo Regime United for Justice), Desaparecidos, together with Selda (Society of Ex-detainees Against Detention and for Amnesty) and the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace
(EMJP) declare that they will do everything to make sure this will be
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s last State of the Nation Address.
After almost a decade in power, Arroyo has been the president with the
longest residency in Malacañang after the dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.
Her administration has ruled in a state of an undeclared martial law
making her worse than her predecessors.
For the human rights advocates, her track record proves that if she
ever has a human rights agenda, apparently, is nothing but to
systematically violate the Filipino people’s civil and political rights
to keep her into power. Human rights violations are being committed as
a matter of state policy, thus with immunity, to quell public dissent
and cover up the plunder and economic exploitation of the Filipino
people.
Karapatan welcomes the lifting of JASIG suspension, calls for the release of detained NDFP consultants
Submitted on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 19:43
On the resumption of peace talks
Karapatan welcomes the lifting of JASIG suspension, calls for the release of detained NDFP consultants
The human rights alliance Karapatan welcomes the lifting of the suspension of the Joint Agreement on Security and Immunity Guarantee (JASIG), which shall take effect on July 17, to pave the way for the resumption of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
