“Tax dollars should not fund the Philippine military death squad. I urge you in Congress to pass the Philippine Human Rights Act.”
US lawmaker reintroduces bill seeking to tie US gov’t aid to PH human rights reforms
Tags: Manny Asuncion
‘DOJ reso on the murder of activist Manny Asuncion, a grave injustice’- groups
Rights group DEFEND Southern Tagalog condemned the decision, asserting that the DOJ’s insistence on “presumption of regularity” is a “grave injustice.”
Bloody Sunday victims remembered as PH activists push for workers’ rights, welfare
To date, there are 31 unionists who remain in detention for trumped-up charges and 56 trade unionists extrajudicially killed in the country.
Manny Asuncion: A worker who embraced the bigger fight for social justice
Manny Asuncion was the very definition of an organizer: patient with the masses, always willing to serve the people, and filled with righteous anger against injustice.
Government files new charges vs 72 Southern Tagalog activists
By RONALYN V. OLEA
When then United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston pointed to the filing of charges against political activists by the Interagency Legal Assistance Group (IALAG) as violative of human rights, the previous Arroyo administration dismantled it. But even without the IALAG, the filing of harassment charges against political activists continues, even under the current Aquino government.