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“Flying Dutchmen” campaigning for HR in the Philippines: a “portent of doom” for the crimes of the US-Aquino regime

Statement Released by:  Peter Murphy General-Secretary     International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) The right-wing Aquino regime continues to harp on the spin about the violence (which the police clearly started)  during the recent State of the Nation Address, blatantly covering up the fact that the Aquino regime itself is a …

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European rights advocates urge EU to withdraw 10M euro grant for Aquino’s failed justice program

International delegates who attended the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines have urged the European Union to stop aid to the Aquino government, specifically the withdrawal of a 10 million euro grant for the Philippine Justice Support Programme.   The more than 250 foreign delegates, in a strongly worded resolution unanimously …

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Int’l delegates hit surveillance of confab pax, use of “nat’l security” to justify repression

International peace activists and human rights defenders attending the International Conference for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICHRPP) condemned the deployment of military and police surveillance agents in their activities even as they geared up to join tomorrow’s SONA protests.   Security personnel of the conference apprehended a police officer and suspected military …

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Int’l community press for the resumption of GPH-NDFP peace talks

Hoping that international pressure would bring the GPH-NDFP talks back on track, peace advocates and rights defenders at the International Conference for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICHRPP) called on the Aquino government to resume peace talks with the National Democratic Front, citing poverty and the re-escalation of human rights abuses as the …

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Former GPH peace negotiator calls for resumption of Talks with NDF; Political Prisoners go on Hunger Strike

A former government negotiator in peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is urging the Aquino government to honor the 10 previously signed agreements between the GPH and the rebel group in order for the talks to resume.   At the sidelines of the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace …

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Int’l peace activist: impunity in the Phils similar to the time of assassination of Msgr. Romero of El Salvador

El Salvadoran peace activist Marta Benavides likened the killing of Italian priest Fausto Tentorio and the continuing impunity in the Philippines to the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Monsignor Oscar Romero in El Salvador.   "It is the same thing that happened to all the martyrs in Latin America, the same thing that happened in El …

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US lawyer calls for peace through respect of people’s economic rights

A prominent American human rights lawyer is calling on Filipinos to use human rights laws and conventions to force the Aquino government into reversing economic policies that adversely affect ordinary citizens, especially the poor.   In her keynote speech before the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace (ICHRPP) at the Great Eastern Hotel in …

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Intl peace, human rights confab opens tomorrow; will send delegates to SONA rally on Monday

More than 250 peace advocates and human rights defenders from 25 countries gather tomorrow as the International Conference for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICHRPP) opens at 9 a.m. at the Great Eastern Hotel, Quezon City. The foreign delegates are also attending the People’s SONA on Monday, July 22 to cap the three-day …

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