“Ms. Etta Rosales should immediately resign from her post as chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights as she is acting more like the spokesperson of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, instead of fulfilling the mandate of her office. Etta Rosales has been repeatedly remiss in her responsibilities, and …
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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 …
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 …
“The issue, Mr. Lacierda, is not the Dutch man, the Crying Cop, or your blabber on the Left. The issue is Noynoy Aquino’s 4th State of the Nation Address that deliberately evaded the violations of civil, political, economic and socio-cultural rights of the Filipino people. The issue is the continuing extrajudicial killings, unsolved cases of …
Mr. Lacierda the issue is Aquino’s human rights record Read More »
An international coalition to campaign for human rights and justice and to end impunity, was launched today during the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICHRPP) held at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City. The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) was one of the major …
Int’l coalition formed to campaign vs HR abuses in the Phils Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Int’l community press for the resumption of GPH-NDFP peace talks Read More »
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 …
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 …
US lawyer calls for peace through respect of people’s economic rights Read More »
