Tinatawagan at hinihikayat naming ang mga mamamayan, lalu na ang mga botante, na tiyakin na ang karapatang pantao ay pangunahing kabahagi ng pampulitikang adyenda ng lahat ng mga kandidato.

Napakahalaga na maunawaan natin ang mga usapin na karapatang pantao ay hindi nagtatapos sa halalan 2010.

Kailangan subabayan natin ang mga nahalal na mga opisyales sa atin mga lugar ay ipinapaloob at pinapatupad ang mga karapatang pantao sa mga batas, sa pamamahala, sa usaping kapayapaan at sa gawaing kaunlaran.

“AGRA-KADABRA”: Black Magic is Upon Us
(Incremental Impunity in Progress)

Incremental impunity is in progress. By making a mountain out of a molehill of an alibi that both Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan were not in the site of the infamous Ampatuan massacre, Acting Justice Secretary Agra seems to be part of a Conjurer’s magic words: “Agra-kadabra” to make the charges and the persons charged for plotting and/or executing the massacre disappear.

The struggle for justice of victims of enforced disappearance and other human rights violations has been an uphill battle with victory almost out of sight for years. After eight long years, however, the families of six desaparecidos in Agusan del Sur scored a breakthrough with the conviction of Army Corporal Rodrigo L. Billones on 18 July 2008.

Last April 13, 2010, the families embark on another hard fight toward complete victory by filing a case of murder against other officers and members of the 62^nd Infantry Battalion, 8^th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, which used to be stationed in Agusan del Sur, who were implicated by Army Sergeant Esequias Duyogan in the kidnapping and serious illegal detention case against Billones.

Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) - Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) - Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Maralita ng Lunsod (KPML) - Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)

Workers and urban poor launched this morning their own version of Christ Passion of the Cross in Welcome Rotunda, Quezon City. The depiction is a timely reminder of the sacrifices of the workers and urban poor in today’s advent celebration. Ironically, the workers who produce the nation’s wealth are being pushed further into deep poverty and helplessness. The issue of contractualization continues to wreck havoc on the lives of the workers that is becoming a rampant scheme or practice of most companies. In the same manner that the country’s urban poor are threatened by the unabated demolition of their abode and worst they were left without any relocation endangering their subsistence and right to live.