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The People's Human Rights Amidst War and Globalization |
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HR Situationer
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Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:00 |
Human Rights Under the Arroyo Government
January to December 2002
Every human person is the "central subject of development". Based on and elaborating from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the international community affirms the inherent dignity of everyone, everywhere and "aims at the constant improvement of the well-being of the entire population and all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in [the comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process] development and in the fair distribution of benefits resulting there from." It is in this framework that this human rights situationer is presented.
The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) notes three main issues that significantly affected human rights in the country in the year 2002: governance, war and peace, and globalization.
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Last Updated on Monday, 05 October 2009 11:22 |
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Human Rights Violations: By Commission and Omission - Destabilize the State |
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HR Situationer
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Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:00 |
Human Rights Under the Arroyo Government
January to June 2002
High expectations for the respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights met the advent of the Arroyo government last year. After all, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was catapulted to power by a people’s bold exercise of their rights and freedoms in a historic moment now called People Power II.
On Arroyo’s first year as president, however, peoples’ organizations and human rights organizations received a rude jolt, and now, on the second year of her presidency, this concern has become full blown.
In the months the Arroyo administration ruled the country, it has perpetrated the same cases of human rights violations it inherited from previous administrations by non-action, by omission. Worse, it has shown itself tolerant, if not supportive, of abusive acts committed by its military and police forces against the civilian population. Thus, the Arroyo administration has to account for human rights violations done either by commission (i.e. by direct action of the state or other entities insufficiently regulated by the state) or by omission (i.e. by failure to take the necessary measures stemming from legal obligations).
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