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AFP P19.25M reward to “informers” a rip-off at the expense of people’s rights

“The Armed Forces of the Philippines has no right to brag about the capture of ‘terrorist personalities and communist leaders’ through their so-called informants. It’s a shame that it spent P19.25 million of the nation’s money for capturing and torturing people like security guard Rolly Panesa  and presenting him as “Benjamin Mendoza”,  a high-ranking official …

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Natl ID system and SIM card registration twin proposals to curtail rights

“The twin proposals from the Senate and the House of Representatives – the introduction of a national identification system and the registration of phone SIM cards – are bound to lead to the curtailment of the right to privacy, freedom of expression and other violations of civil and political rights.” Thus said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan …

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US support to Aquino govt will worsen rights violations in the Philippines

Karapatan today slammed the US and Aquino administrations’ design to intensify US intervention and increase support for Aquino’s counter-insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan that will aggravate human rights violations in the Philippines.  Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan, said the recent appointment of Philip Goldberg as US ambassador to the Philippines alongside reports of Washington’s increase …

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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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