THE US-BASED, 30-year-old organization Human Rights Watch — the Asia Division of which, incidentally, former New York Times and International Herald Tribune free -lance correspondent Carlos Conde is now the Philippine Researcher — describes itself as “ one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention [...]
Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
Biting the bullet
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged human rights, Human Rights Watch on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Closure
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged closure, extrajudicial killings, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, human rights on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
THE NEED for closure was among the reasons Justice Secretary Laila de Lima cited to put in context her denial of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s petition for travel abroad. Closure is what has eluded Filipinos most when it comes to the most critical events and issues that have confronted this country since its independence was restored. De [...]
Full of it
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged human rights, press freedom, Reynato Puno, Supreme Court on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Practically everyone who’s not part of the Malacanang Mafia of conmen, plunderers, congressmen you wouldn’t buy a used car from, and relics of the martial law period has weighed in with his or her opinion on why there are plans afoot to impeach Chief Justice Reynato Puno. Mostly they’ve linked it to the wide-ranging conspiracy [...]
Waste paper
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged CHR, human rights, Magdalo, police, press freedom on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Commission on Human Rights resolution released last Monday acknowledged the value of press freedom — but reminded journalists (don’t call them newsmen) that they had responsibilities. The good commissioners didn’t specify what they thought these were. Otherwise they might have had to declare that the most basic is providing the public the information it [...]
The regime of mockery
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged Arroyo, CPP, Esperon, Gonzalez, Hello Garci, human rights, MILF, NPA, peace on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s not exaggerate. Retired Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon is not really as Senator Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal described him. Senator Madrigal compared Esperon to Adolf Hitler and to Josef Stalin when she learned that Esperon had been appointed Presidential Peace Adviser. Esperon did have command of the Armed Forces. But he commanded no [...]
