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Seeking Answers Report : The Philippines

Seeking Answers: "Probing Political Persecution, Repression, and Human Rights Violations in the Philippines"

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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