UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard urged UN member States to “apply sanctions against Filipino officials who have committed, who have incited, or who have failed to investigate or prevent human rights violations including arbitrary killings.”
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) supports the case filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Rodrigo Duterte and the UN Human Rights Council resolution seeking to investigate the human rights situation in the Philippines. It vowed to support the filing of other suits against Duterte “for violations of international human rights law.”
“The Duterte government is run by pathological liars and militarists who are corrupt to the core, able to subvert laws and mechanisms to evade accountability.”
Complainants and witnesses of the recently-concluded International People’s Tribunal submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) a copy of its Verdict, Indictment, Case Summaries and other evidence presented before its jurors. The IPT found President Rodrigo Duterte, US President Donald Trump, and international monetary organizations guilty of violating the Filipino people’s political and economic rights,…
“The poor have been striving hard to get out of poverty but the President’s answer buried them instead, literally and figuratively.”
“He wants to be immune and act with impunity both under domestic law and under international law.”
By RONALYN OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – For an anti-imperialist group, the move of President Benigno S. Aquino III endorsing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for ratification by the Senate is a welcome development but is not enough. Aquino signed on Feb. 28 the instrument of ratification of the said treaty and…
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) The International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) successfully held its Third International Assembly (TIA) in Hong Kong from June 18 to 20. Prof. Jose Maria Sison was re-elected as chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC). BY D. L. MONDELO (Bulatlat.com)…