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Category: Human Rights

Willie, please stop humiliating the poor

Published by Ellen on March 27, 2011

Update: Social Services Secretary wrote Manny V. Pangilinan, owner of TV5

I’m in a dilemma about posting this very cruel video here because it’s like adding to the humiliation of Jan-jan. But at the same time, we cannot be talking and enjoining people to join hands in putting a stop to this deplorable practice without showing the incident.

I’m reposting here the letter of Cathy Babao-Guballa about the incident.

I captured a shot in the video. If you want to see the whole video here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YRCxh9q64w. It was too painful for me.

Jan-jan

Dearest Jan-jan,

My heart broke as I watched you cry on television. You should never have been there in the first place.

There are many people to blame for the humiliation that you went through. What took place should have never happened if people had… been doing their jobs, if people had only known better. First of all, I cannot understand how your tita would teach you to dance that way!! You are only six years old and what do you know about the world? I’m sure you are a very bright, sensitive, and talented little boy, that much I could see.

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Naintindihan ba ni Mayor Lim ang karapatang pantao?

Published by Ellen on March 20, 2011

Nagsalita na rin si Etta Rosales, chairperson ng Commission on Human Rights, tungkol sa order ni Manila Mayor Lim na shoot-to-kill sa limang pulis na nangbulsa daw P12 milyon, mula sa P16 milyon ransom money na ibinayad ng nakidnap na negosyanteng Malaysian.

Sabi ni Rosales para naman “gangland” tayo sa order ni Lim.

Nauna nang binatikos ni Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, na dating chair din ng CHR, sa kanyang order. Sabi ni Lima akala yata ni Lim ay nasa “Wild,wild West” tayo.

Nagsalita na rin si Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Badillo. Sabi niya, kahit nga mga huwes hindi nagbibigay ng ganyang order. May proseso. May warrant of arrest.”Sino si Mayor Lim? May kapangyarihan ba siya magbigay ng ganyang order?”

Sabi ni ng spokesperson ni Lim, kaya naman daw sinabi yun ng mayor dahil armado daw ang limang pulis na mga suspek. Ang sinabi daw na shoot-to-kill ay kung lalaban kapag inaresto.

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US judge OKs payment of $7.5M to Marcos victims

Published by Ellen on January 15, 2011

From GMA-7 online

Marcos at the height of his power with Imelda beside him
HONOLULU — A federal judge on Thursday approved the distribution of $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by thousands of victims of torture, execution and abduction under the regime of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.

The distribution provides victims their first opportunity to collect something since they sued in 1986.

Each of the 7,526 eligible members of the class-action lawsuit will receive $1,000 under the plan approved by US District Judge Manuel Real. Distribution is expected to begin in mid-February and take about a month.

Robert Swift, the lead attorney in the case, said the payments were an important milestone for victims who have been fighting for years. Most of the victims or their surviving family members live in the Philippines.

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Sanga-sangang problema dahil sa palpak na desisyon sa trahedya ng Agosto 23

Published by Ellen on December 12, 2010

Sinabi ni Pangulong Aquino sa Inquirer na kaya daw yumuko ang Pilipinas sa kagustuhan ng China na boykotin ang awarding ceremonies ng prestihoso na Nobel Peace Prize sa Intsik na aktibista na si Liu Xiaobo ay dahil daw sa limang Pilipino na nasa death row sa China.

Nilalakad kasi ng Pilipinas na salbahin ang limang Pilipino na yun sa kamatayan.

Dalawang rason pa ang sinabi niya: ang Agosto 23 na trahedya at ang girian ng South at North Korea dahil may 50,000 na Pilipino raw sa South Korea.

Hayaan na natin ang away ng South Korea at North Korea. Sobrang malayo na yun sa isyu na ito.

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Is Aquino saying that protection of drug traffickers is national interest?

Published by Ellen on December 12, 2010

There is something wrong here.

President Aquino said the Philippine government boycotted the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in exchange for the freedom of five Filipinos in the death row in China for drug trafficking.

Are we condoning drug trafficking?

What happens now to our own fight against illegal drugs? If we ask foreign governments to relax their laws against Filipinos involved in trafficking of illegal drugs, have we the right to be hard on other nationalities involved in drug trafficking in our own country?

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