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to arrest people without due process and to kill thousands with impunity including human rights defenders indigenous peoples lawyers trade unionists and the poor journalists have been arrested and murdered and established media organizations have either been forced to close or are under constant threat and harassment he funds marketing companies to flood social media with propaganda and pays trolls to send death threats to critics and human rights defenders online duterte signed a bill giving him and his cronies the power to designate anyone they don t like as a terrorist allowing them to wiretap private conversations detain people without a warrant and try suspects in kangaroo courts why should canadians care about this filipino canadians are one of the largest asian communities in canada duterte s actions directly affect them and their families and so everything possible must be done to keep them safe canada has mining and business interests in the philippines where are their human rights interests why does foreign minister champagne refuse to denounce these attacks on democracy we must join the un in condemning these human rights abuses so again why should we care paraphrasing dr martin luther king jr a threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere we are living in an age of democratic decay leaders like trump modi bolsonaro and duterte all flout the law attack their political enemies and spread disinformation while trying to control their populations through force essentially using their democracies to kill their own people some of our so called leaders are taking a peek and flirting with these ideas maybe they think they can get away with it while no one is watching but guess what we are all watching authoritarians seem to forget that dictators have a shelf life marcos thought he had complete control but he underestimated the people power revolution filipinos took to the streets demonstrating and rebelling against the regime significant international pressure forced the regime to acknowledge their human rights abuses they forced the regime to hold elections what happened to marcos the dictator his excellency as he liked to be called ran away to hawaii in 1986 years of hard work and organizing by filipinos and their international allies overturned marcos and his martial law we remember this day because today we are in similar conditions with yet another bloodthirsty authoritarian in the philippines this time with a social media following and a phony drug war for the sake of our friends our loved ones our democracies and for those we have not met we look at this day and say never again posted by ochrp september 23 2020 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on anniversary of martial law under marcos statement condemning the pardon of murderer joseph scott pemberton ochrp condemns another of dutete s attacks on due process and the criminal justice in the phiilippines while on the on hand duterte uses the criminal justice system of the philippines to imprison the innocent on the other he uses his power as president to function as an american puppet pardoning us service man involved in murdering transgendered filipino jennifer laude in 2014 lance corporal joseph scott pemberton an anti tank missile operator from new bedford massachusetts was one of thousands of us and philippine military personnel who participated in annual joint military exercises in the philippines in 2014 pemberton and a group of other marines met laude and her friends at a bar in olongapo after the completion of the balikatan military excercises laude was later found dead in a motel room where witnesses said she and pemberton had checked in a witness told investigators that pemberton had admitted he had choked laude to death after discovering she was transgender pemberton was subsequently convicted after intense public outrage put political pressure on the philippine government for justice his pardon by rodrigo duterte reflects the continued subservience of the philippine president to us control furthermore he intentionally chose a marginalized victim to rob of justice likely hoping for apathy about anti trans hate crime to limit public outcry let us prove him wrong posted by ochrp september 11 2020 september 11 2020 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on statement condemning the pardon of murderer joseph scott pemberton police terrorist gallery targets activists in davao jul 24 2020 mara s genotiva govt red tagging of davao political activists source karapatan davao city philippines progressive groups cried foul over posters spreading in different areas of the city this week that tagged their leaders as terrorists as the controversial anti terrorism act ata takes effect this week printed on top of the poster is wanted with photos of various prominent activist leaders in the region tagging them as terrorist recruiter the posters bear no signatories the leaders are carlo olalo romelito pablo and pj dizong from the labor center kilusang mayo uno southern mindanao region cora espinoza gabriela smr vice chairperson and a former commissioner of the philippine commission on women may ann sapar of gabriela smr tony salubre kilusang magbubukid ng pilipinas smr spokesperson jong monzon pasaka secretary general pila barredo union secretary of alliance of concerned teachers davao region and jay apiag karapatan smr secretar general the regional chapters of gabriela kilusang mayo uno and karapatan issued statements of condemnation on this propaganda jay apiag said in a statement that the red tagging and terror tagging tactics against activists are nothing new but the anti terror law puts their lives at risk with this recent terror tagging of activists and me as a rights champion i am feeling a sense of danger in my security as i usually attend court hearings of several political prisoners and leading quick response teams whenever there are reported cases of rights abuses in various communities we serve said apiag in a message sent to davao today the group said the law will only embolden authorities to commit more human rights violations with more impunity under the ata suspected individuals can be arrested without a court warrant and they can be detained for a maximum of 24 days without charges being filed against them apiag said that the intensified terror tagging on the onset of the implementation of ata refutes the claims of officials that activists and their right to expression and advocacies are safeguarded what this show is the clear purpose of the law and that is to silence critics and dissenters and even citizens who want to raise their valid complaints to the government it does send a warning but we are not backing off we will not choose silence apiag added kilusang mayo uno smr secretary general carlo olalo slammed the incident as a desperate act of the state to quell the growing dissent of the public for the government s incompetent response to the health crisis instead of addressing the real problems aggravated by the pandemic such as unemployment and economic crisis the government through its armed forces has more time in silencing its critics olalo said in a phone interview olalo added that they have already sought help from their counsels for appropriate legal actions the youth group anakbayan smr also denounced the smear campaign and assailed that the government should have instead allocated its resources to implement mass testing and financial assistance for those affected by the pandemic the group also urged residents to document and voluntarily remove any malicious materials vilifying legitimate organizations that can be seen in davao city davaotoday com posted by ontario committee for human rights in the philippines july 27 2020 posted in uncategorized 1 comment on police terrorist gallery targets activists in davao report card on duterte s 2020 sona ontario committee for human rights in the philippines ochrp report card on duterte s 2020 sona july 27 2020 this is the 5 th state of the nation address of the duterte government a number of us from canada were present at the 1 st sona of duterte back in 2016 it was a time of hope when it seemed after decades of war peace was a real possibility progressive activists were given cabinet posts it was a time when it appeared there was the possibility of real and open negotiation with the national democratic movement now five years later the tyrannical duterte regime stands on a mountain of corpses a product of its war on drugs war on the poor and war on dissent we can grade the duterte regimes performance over the past five year an increasingly fascist regime cabinet positions are given primarily to ex police and military officers it is a military junta in all but name grade fail on an independent judiciary duterte impeached the chief justice of the supreme court because he was uncomfortable with some of her positions in the war on drugs grade fail he also had human rights lawyers including atty benjamin ramos in negros murdered by the military the ongoing denegation of the legal system and attacks on the judiciary can only be graded double fail on freedom of the press more journalists have been murdered than under any other philippine regime prominent journalists such as maria resa have been arrested multiple times the largest opposition tv network was closed down by the duterte regime this judicial and political harassment of the press merits a fail on political prisoners the duterte regime has imprisoned more than 300 political activists and currently 610 political prisoners languish in philippine prisons for ongoing abuse of the judicial system to harass regime opponents duterte gets a fail on political space every day the duterte regime becomes more tyrannical killings of activists peace negotiators indigenous peoples environmental activists journalists lawyers labour organizers and many other sectors have become commonplace in his dirty war on the defenders of people s rights negros has been particularly hard hit with 3 killing cycles of activists in the last year graded a fail on creation of political space and toleration of dissent recently the duterte regime doubled down on repression passing its draconian anti terror legislation so that it can further harass and murder opponents with impunity grade double fail on the war on drugs 27 000 dead no one is held accountable suspects are killed by the police and military with impunity earning a massive fail for a grade further the un commissioner for human rights recent report further condemned the culture of murder and impunity in the police and military double fail on the health front the duterte regime has resorted to a military solution to combat the virus their strategy of no testing and lock down has not stopped the pandemic which now rages across the country fail on the peace process the duterte regime suspended peace negotiations with the ndfp and tore up nearly 25 years of agreements it subsequently unleashed a reign of murder and terror across the central philippines trying to snuff out people s resistance it murdered peace negotiator randy malayo in february of last year and arrested more than a dozen peace negotiators in violation of agreements it has previously signed fail on the war on islam duterte destroyed marawi the largest islamic city in the philippines in 2017 up to 1 000 civilians were killed since then more than 250 000 residents have been living as refugees with no right of return their homes bulldozed for its abuse of the muslim minority population duterte is graded a fail as human rights advocates we want president duterte to stop the lockdowns start universal and free mass testing and mass tracing to combat the corona virus and provide adequate ppe to all health workers stop the war on drugs duterte s alleged war on drugs is a war on the poor end impunity stop the killings stop the slaughter end defacto martial law and restart peace talks with the ndfp address the roots of social conflict in the philippines end landlessness joblessness poverty and human rights violations in the philippines stop the tyranny and stop the killings of those who are defending our rights and peoples rights reverse the anti terror legislation and stop the mass terror against the filipino people posted by ontario committee for human rights in the philippines july 26 2020 posted in uncategorized 1 comment on report card on duterte s 2020 sona council of global unions statement on the suppression of democratic rights in the philippines 21 07 2020 human and trade union rights philippines right to strike countries at risk democracies for people change the rules covid 19 pandemic news from unions peace democracy and rights we register alarm over the passage of republic act 11479 or the anti terrorism act of 2020 this law could easily be abused while human security the supposed aim of the anti terrorism act is a real concern the same should not be pursued through undemocratic means the act undermines due process as it empowers the executive branch to identify terrorist individuals or groups and to conduct warrantless arrests for at least fourteen 14 days with its deplorable record of human rights violations in the past four years in its war on drugs the philippines does not need another legal instrument to legitimize illegal arrests and extrajudicial killings we support the initiative of nagkaisa united coalition federation of free workers ffw kilusang mayo uno kmu sentro and other labor groups to petition the philippine supreme court to stop the implementation of this law for being inimical to workers interests and for being unconstitutional in the ituc report of 2020 the philippines is included in the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world for workers the philippine trade union movement can attest to the alarming level of repression of workers rights in the country there have been too many unexplained disappearances and killings of labor leaders and members moreover in its attempt to silence dissident labor leaders the philippine government has resorted to red tagging this tactic has not only jeopardized the lives of labor leaders it has also undermined efforts of trade unions to hold employers and government accountable for anti labor actions since these efforts are always maliciously exposed as bearing communist sentiments the united nations and the ilo committee of experts on the application of conventions and recommendations have on several occasions expressed disquiet about government s use of anti terror and other public order legislation to suppress human rights the anti terrorism act is a violation of ilo convention 87 on freedom of association and other international human rights obligations in the context of covid 19 the situation of filipino workers has worsened the philippine government itself projects that some 10 million filipinos will be out of jobs by the 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