IJN is monitoring human rights abuses in the Philippines, where hundreds of activists and members of the media who criticized the regime have been murdered. IJN asks: Is the "global war on terror" being used as a cover for politically motivated murder and oppression in the Philippines?
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The ILRF submitted a petition on June 22, 2007 to the Office of the US Trade Representative alleging the Philippines Government has engaged in deprivation of workers rights, including the right to unionize and the right of association.
The full text of the complaint can be found here,
ILRF's press release can be found here.
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US solons to GMA: Prosecute perpetrators of killings
"Some 49 US lawmakers have expressed alarm on the human rights situation in the Philippines and called on President Arroyo to prosecute the perpetrators of extra-judicial killings."
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US solons’ ‘letter of concern’ uncalled for — Palace exec
The Daily Tribune, 08/07/2007
"A Malacañang official yesterday branded as “unfair” the move taken by some 49 American lawmakers by writing a “letter of concern” urging President Arroyo to act on the escalating human rights situation in the Philippines."
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In December 2006, Brian Campbell, an attorney at the International Labor Rights Fund, was briefly detained and then deported upon arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport. He was traveling to the Philippines to attend a 10-nation summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Below are a series of articles about this deportation.
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Seeking Answers: "Probing Political Persecution, Repression, and Human Rights Violations in the Philippines"
Click here to read the report
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.
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Human rights lawyers who issued a report linking the Philippine government to over 800 political killings and calling for a congressional investigation into the use of US war on terror funds, have been banned from re-entering the Philippines.
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