By RONALYN V. OLEA
“She [Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo] is the only president who implemented the bloodiest and most vicious counterinsurgency program because the focus of this is to attack civil-society organizations, a move that was not made by previous presidents,” Marie Hilao-Enriquez of Karapatan said.
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Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
By Tope Folarin Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com The United Nations will host a Haiti donors’ conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year’s event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already…
Now We See You, Now We Don’t
By Kathy Kelly Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat ‘In early June 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage that had spurred his and his family’s flight there a mere 15 days earlier. Their city, Mingora, had come under massive aerial bombardment. He recalled…
Torture Survivors Recount Ordeal Before UN Body
Victims of torture under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration traveled all the way to Geneva, Switzerland to tell their stories of torture during the 42nd Session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT).
Groups Urge Review of New UN Guidelines on Child Soldiers
Various groups have called for a review of the Paris Principles, the new guidelines adopted by the United Nations (UN) in defining child soldiers. By not distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants, the Paris Principles, they said, place children in rebel-influenced areas in danger as they are de-facto labeled as child soldiers and therefore, open targets…
UN Human Rights Committee Says Arroyo Gov’t Guilty of Violating Rights on Marcellana-Gumanoy case
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has found the Arroyo government guilty of violating the rights of human rights defenders Eden Marcellana and Eddie Gumanoy. Marcellana, then Karapatan-Southern Tagalog secretary general and Gumanoy, local peasant leader, were abducted and killed in April 2003. Witnesses point to the “Bonnet Gang,” a paramilitary group linked with…
Lawyers’ Groups to Seek UN’s Help to Curb Attacks vs Lawyers, Judges
Frustrated with the lack of government measures to address the problem of killings and other rights abuses, lawyers’ groups resolved to seek the help of the United Nations to curb the continuing attacks against Filipino lawyers and judges. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat Frustrated with the lack of government measures to address…
Groups Hit Gov’t before UN body
BY BULATLAT Leaders of two progressive organizations went to Geneva, Switzerland to raise ‘Philippine government’s violations to human rights and economic, social and cultural rights’ before the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of independent experts that monitors…
Fil-Am Activists Slam GMA’s US Visit
BY BULATLAT An organization of US-based Filipino activists has warned Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that not everyone in the Filipino-American community will welcome her visit there this week. Arroyo will be attending the 63rd United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York starting this week. According to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Arroyo will be bringing along…
Half the World Hit by US Unilateral Sanctions
by Someshwar Singh South-North Development Monitor – Third World Network Dec. 1999 Geneva, 21 Dec 99 — More than half of the world’s population in 75 countries is subject to unilateral coercive economic measures or ‘sanctions’ by one country alone – the United States of America – according to a recent report by the United…