Skewered every now and then over unresolved cases of extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture, Malacañang on Monday stressed its commitment to human rights and released a list of initiatives in its campaign against human rights violations.
A human rights group on Friday assailed President Benigno Aquino III for lying on the continuing human rights violations in the Philippines in a bid to get the $13 million in US military aid.
The Aquino administration has “nothing to hide” when it comes to human rights abuses, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima told United States-based human rights groups that she invited to a meeting at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
A New York-based human-rights watchdog on Wednesday said that the Philippine government was premature in claiming that it had made significant progress in addressing human rights issues, insisting the need for the government to successfully prosecute those responsible for extrajudicial killings.
The United States has handed to the Philippines a $584,000 (P25 million) funding to boost cooperation to quell drug trafficking and stop extrajudicial killings, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on the government to act on the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to hold local officials in Davao City accountable for the unabated and systematic pattern of extrajudicial killings by a vigilante group in the city from 2005 to 2009.
A suspect in the July 3 killing of Dutch development worker Wilhelmus JJ Lutz Geertman has been identified by a witness through mug shots compiled by the Philippine National Police, a human rights official said Tuesday.
Several nations pressed the Philippines to step up efforts to arrest the perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country, including retired Army General Jovito Palparan, during a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Tuesday.
US-based militant groups on Thursday said the Aquino government had failed to stop human rights abuses, contrary to claims by Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Wednesday in a lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
A top official of the US Department of State has expressed serious concern over extrajudicial killings involving security forces in the Philippines.
The Philippines must do more to stop human rights abuses, especially extrajudicial killings if it wants to receive more US aid, the US ambassador to the country said on Friday. Speaking at a round table of human rights advocates, Ambassador Harry Thomas said the US Congress still withholds a portion of US aid to this [...]
