In the latest in a long string of outrageous human rights and civil liberties violations perpetrated by the Thai government, political scientist Giles Ji Ungpakorn is facing prison for lese majeste — insulting the king — in a recent article about the 2006 Thai coup.
You can read the offending paragraphs here and judge for [...]
How does Thailand get away with it?
January 20th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: academia · Human Rights · media · politics · Thailand
UN Human Rights Committee finds the Arroyo government guilty of human rights violations
November 24th, 2008 No Comments
More than two years after the families of two murdered human rights activists filed a complaint against the Philippine government, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled the Arroyo government is guilty of violating the activists’ right to life, and was negligent in providing remedy after they were killed.
Eden Marcellana, photo courtesy Karapatan
On April 21, 2003, [...]
Tags: Arroyo · extrajudicial murder · Human Rights · Philippines · UN
Human bone found in Bataan Camp
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
Human bone in Bataan camp by Nikko Dizon LIMAY, BATAAN—Braving rains, a fact-finding team Tuesday dug up a yellow rubber slipper, a laced shirt and burned fragments of what they suspected was a human [...]
Tags: Arroyo · extrajudicial murder · Human Rights · Philippines
Philippines uli
May 13th, 2008 3 Comments
Mountain Province, Luzon, Summer 2006
I finally have a confirmed ticket to and from the Philippines this summer. Philippine Airlines certainly made me sweat a bit (I didn’t know until this morning whether I had to be ready to leave on Sunday) but in the end, I got exactly the itinerary I wanted — [...]
Tags: Davao · extrajudicial murder · Human Rights · Mindanao · Philippines · Zamboanga
Melilla, a photoessay by Flo Razowsky
January 19th, 2008 No Comments
Flo — activist, photojournalist, friend and inspiration — has just posted a beautiful new photoessay from the Spanish-Moroccan border at Melilla.http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9398
“This portfolio is part of a bigger project focused on the look of borders become manifest, the look of the land and the people when the arbitrary line in the sand takes form. These shots [...]
Tags: border · Flo Razowsky · Human Rights · Photos
On the Edge:The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez
January 8th, 2008 No Comments
The first section of Steev Hise’s film “On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez” can now be viewed online at http://panleft.net/cms/ote-podcast1
He will be poisting a new segment every Monday for the next 8 weeks — definitely a film worth checking out.
For more information about the film, visit http://political.detritus.net/juarez
Tags: border · Human Rights · Impunity · Juarez · Mexico · Women's Rights
Arroyo receives human rights award. Seriously.
December 7th, 2007 2 Comments
President Arroyo was just awarded the “Medalla de Oro” from Universidad de Alcala in Spain, in recognition of her work to improve the human rights situation in the Philippines.
This makes me, quite literally, feel sick.
Yes, she abolished the death penalty. But to me, that seems a little irrelevant when she has condoned hundreds of extrajudicial [...]
Tags: Arroyo · extrajudicial murder · Human Rights · Impunity · Philippines · yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck
Another weird coup attempt…
November 30th, 2007 1 Comment
Yet another bizarre, poorly-planned coup attempt in the Philippines. This has basically become an annual event. In fact, it may have been a bit behind schedule.I don’t really have the mental energy right now to wrap my head fully around this one, although it’s worth noting that one of the coup leaders was Antonio Trillanes, [...]
Tags: Coups · Human Rights · Impunity · Manila · Philippines
UN report on extrajudicial murder in the Philippines
November 26th, 2007 No Comments
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (now there’s a job title) has just released his report on the Philippines. I realize that some of you may have actual lives, but I’m pretty excited it’s out, and I know human rights activists in the Philippines are too. The report doesn’t say anything [...]
Tags: Davao · Death Squads · Human Rights · Human Security Act · Impunity · Leftist Factions · Philippines · Police Violence · War on Terror
Fatal Explosion in Manila
October 19th, 2007 No Comments
An explosion Friday afternoon in a Metro Manila shopping mall left at least 9 dead and more than 100 injured. Investigations into the cause of the explosion are ongoing, but authorities have announced traces of high explosives were found on the scene and fingered the Abu Sayyaf Group as a prime suspect.
I was shocked [...]
Tags: Conspiracy Theories · Corruption · Glorietta Mall Explosion · Human Rights · Philippines





