Human Rights Groups to Ask UN to Monitor Philippine Government May 29, 2010 By Ronalyn Olea

 Human Rights Groups to Ask UN to Monitor Philippine Government

Published on May 29, 2010
 
By RONALYN OLEA
Bulatlat.com

A delegation from Philippine non-government organizations will attend the 14th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, to present President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “bloody human rights record.”

The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice for brevity), will send a five-member delegation to Geneva for the session, which will be held from May 31 to June 18.
“We will go to Geneva to register with the UN the human rights record of GMA [Arroyo’s initials] in her nine years as president,” Marie Hilao Enriquez, chairperson of the human rights alliance Karapatan and a member of the delegation, said in a press conference Thursday.

From January 2001 to March 2010, Karapatan documented 1,191 cases of extrajudicial killings, 1,028 cases of torture and 317 political prisoners.

“She 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,” Enriquez said..... MORE  

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