“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 »
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 …
Karapatan, through its chairperson Marie-Hilao Enriquez, raised alarm on the spate of arrests involving a former political prisoner and a farmer and the abduction and disappearance of another farmer and a tricycle driver in less than a week. “Will Pres. Aquino brag about these rights violations in his 4th State of the Nation Address?” Enriquez,said. …
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The killing of two suspected members of the Ozamiz gang by their police escorts shows Philippine state security forces have not changed their martial law ways, the spokesperson of the International Conference for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICHRPP) said today. "The incident has tell tale signs of a rubout,” said Rep. …
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