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Seeking Answers Report : The Philippines |
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Seeking Answers: "Probing Political Persecution, Repression, and Human Rights Violations in the Philippines"
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There is a human rights crisis in the Philippines. Since Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assumed the presidency in 2001, there have been more than 800 extrajudicial killings. Activists, community leaders, organizers, lawyers, journalists, development workers and human rights workers have been assassinated. Progressive members of Congress are being prosecuted on rebellion charges and legal opposition organizations are being threatened.
In response, four women lawyers—representing the National Lawyers
Guild, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the
International Association of Democratic Lawyers— traveled to the
Philippines from May 25 to June 2, 2006, to investigate the
prosecution, the extrajudicial killings, the targeting of women leaders
and the Philippine and the U.S. Government’s role in these human rights
violations. This mission was organized by GABRIELA Network and
co-sponsored by the Vanguard Foundation. In the Philippines, it was
hosted by GABRIELA, Philippines and the Gabriela Women’s Party.
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