Posts by Category: Human Rights

Extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture

687 days ago

Mothers of missing UP students: “We want Palparan behind bars”

“We know this is just the beginning of the path towards justice. We would like to see Palparan behind bars.” Thus expressed victims of human rights violations and their families as they troop to the Department of Justice today, on the first hearing of the criminal case filed against Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. and other AFP officers involved in the disappearance of UP students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan.

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687 days ago

The Philippines: A state of insecurity

By JESSICA EVANS | Human Rights Watch
One year ago, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III became the Philippines’ president after pledging to introduce reforms to protect people’s basic rights. But the longtime problem of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances with clear links to the military continues. The military denies any involvement, and police investigations into these crimes inevitably stall.

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986 days ago

Tyrant Marcos hailed as ‘defender’ of democracy

This poster hangs outside the army base along a busy road leading to The Fort and to the airport, for all the public to see, a few days before the commemoration of Marcos’s declaration of martial law on Sept. 21. It is offensive. It dishonors not only the other men in those posters who genuinely defended this country but the whole Filipino nation as well who suffered under Marcos’s tyranny.

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