The International Delegation. of Lawyers which just concluded a Colloquium and issued a critical Initial Findings on the query into the attacks on Filipino judges, prosecutors, lawyers and paralegals was itself the subject of brazen threats, harassment, and surveillance yesterday.
Press Statement | 16 March 2019 If the Philippine government’s factually dubious, legally anomalous and politically self-serving withdrawal from the Rome Statute takes effect tomorrow, it will lamentably exclude from the coverage of the ICC & therefore deprive the people of an international venue for legal accountability all future post-withdrawal crimes vs humanity, war crimes…
In his 74-page manifesto, the Australian mass murderer Brendan Tarrant raves about the “great replacement” of white people by non-white peoples and blames the liberals for advocating mass migration, white displacement and cultural diversity in the same perverted way that the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Brevik blames “cultural Marxism”.
Sr. Mary John Mananzan (Photo by J.Ellao / Bulatlat.com) “President Duterte is whining like a crybaby for being supposedly deprived of his freedom of speech when he does not even care at all over the grave deprivation of dignified living that women have been subjected to under his regime.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com…
The Duterte government’s accusations against IBON are baseless and aim to stifle economic analysis that is inconsistent with its preferred narrative of growth and development. For over forty years, IBON has sought to explain socioeconomic and political issues to the public as our contribution to Philippine democracy and the cause of genuine progress and development….
With the increasing number of attacks against lawyers, judges and prosecutors in the Philippines, various lawyers’ organizations have come together for a “Colloquium on the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers: Focus on the Philippines.”
The CRPIP is an outright violation of our right to Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), right to our ancestral lands including the Chico River, and right to self determination.
That the US should warn the Duterte government to be wary over concluding treaties with China just shows that the world is no longer under a single hegemonic global power.