Haiti officials renew passport for Duvalier
The lawyer for Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, says immigration officials have renewed his client’s diplomatic passport.
The lawyer for Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, says immigration officials have renewed his client’s diplomatic passport.
The compensation bill for victims of human rights abuses during the martial law regime is not just about money but also acknowledges lapses in protecting Filipinos, President Benigno Aquino III told reporters after a meeting on Monday with Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
They might not have been physically abused but coconut farmers also suffered tortured lives under martial law.
A Quezon City court has issued a hold departure order (HDO) against a couple charged with maltreating their former housemaid until she went blind.
The government has not been able to improve the human rights situation of the country since 2008 when it was last reviewed by the United Nations (UN), Human Rights Watch said Monday.
A group of health workers is protesting the promotions of two military officers who are facing rights-abuse charges in the arrest and detention of the so-called Morong 43 in 2010.
No soldier has been accused of human rights violations this year, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines Human Rights Office (AFPHRO).
A group of human rights lawyers representing the so-called “Morong 43” health workers on Saturday likened the military’s denial of torture allegations to the pronouncements of a Nazi propaganda leader in wartime Germany.
The military said Friday that they have pieces of evidence that will prove that their agents did not torture the “Morong 43.”
Women are not safe even in their homes and from their own loved ones any more.
It’s the inexperienced or overeager rookies who usually cross the line. Majority of the policemen who are implicated in human rights violations come from the lowest ranks, from PO1s (Police Officer 1) to PO3s, according to a memo sent by the National Capital Region Police Office to its five districts in Metro Manila. The NCRPO [...]
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) through its Human Rights Office (HRO) met with a representative from New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) Friday to respond to the latter’s allegations of military involvement in human rights abuses.
In the early morning of June 26, 2006, gunmen seized two University of the Philippines students from their rented house in Hagonoy, Bulacan, according to witnesses. Abducted were Karen Empeño, 22, a sociology student doing research about the plight of Bulacan farmers, and Sherlyn Cadapan, 29, a human kinetics student and community organizer for the [...]
