Contextualizing human rights in the Philippines: A Reader
By Tonyo Cruz Dec 10, 2009 8:38AM UTCIn commemoration of hopefully the last International Human Rights Day under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, here is a listing of human rights reports from 2004 up to the present that chronicle the many brutal violations committed by the government against Filipinos.
The violations are comprehensive: extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture, political persecution of activist Members of Congress, attacks on labor unions and on farmers’ organizations, unresolved murders of working journalists and lawyers, and even children.
This list complements the earlier reader on Philippine political violence which I published here on Asian Correspondent.
- Annual Human Rights Reports 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 by Karapatan
- A Journey of Truth: Report on the Killing of Fr. Cecilio Lucero (2009)
- “You Can Die Any Time”: Death Squad Killings in Mindanao by Human Rights Watch (2009)
- Report on the Persecution of the Batasan 6 by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2007)
- Proceedings of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines (2007)
- Scared Silent: Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines by Human Rights Watch (2007)
- Verdict on the Second Session on the Philippines by the Permanent People’s Tribunal (2007)
- 2007 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights by the ITUC (2007)
- Report of the Melo Commission (2007)
- Philippines: Political Killings, Human Rights and the Peace Process by Amnesty International (2006)
- Probing Political Persecution, Repression and Human Rights Violations in the Philippines by the CCR, NLG and IADL (2006)
- Report of the Hong Kong Mission for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (2006)
- Fact-Finding Mission on the Hacienda Luisita Massacre by Bayan (2004)
Meanwhile, here below are the major human rights documents of the Philippines:
- Bill of Rights in the 1987 Constitution
- Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
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